Sentences with phrase «defined as a mental disorder»

Though not formally defined as a mental disorder, workaholism is distinct from mere devotion to career or work.

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Emotional stress and perinatal mental health disorders, such as prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety, are clinically defined, treatable, and amenable to support, education and intervention.

Psychosis includes hallucinations or delusions that define the development of severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia.

The investigators found that 32 % of patients experienced at least one clinically meaningful mental health issue (defined in the study as a mental health disorder)-- a prevalence higher than in the general population, in which 18 - 20 % are estimated to have a clinically meaningful mental disorder.

In fact, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America defines anxiety disorders as the most common mental illness in the U.S.

Binge eating disorder, which is associated with food addiction, is currently classified as an eating disorder in the DSM - V, the official manual that mental health professionals use to define mental disorders.

The National institute of mental health defines eating disorder as a type of illness.

He defined LD as «a retardation, disorder, or delayed development in one or more of the processes of speech, language, reading, spelling, writing, or arithmetic resulting from a possible cerebral dysfunction and not from mental retardation, sensory deprivation, or cultural or instructional factors.»

Bibliotherapy is defined as the use of books as a treatment for mental or psychological disorders.

Any impairment that results in a marked impairment (class 4) or extreme (class 5 impairment) due to mental or behavioral disorder as defined under American Medical Association guidelines.

Legal Version: A pre-existing condition is defined as any injury, illness, sickness, disease, or other physical, medical, mental or nervous condition, disorder or ailment that existed at the time of application or during the past duration (specified by each insurance plan) prior to the effective date of the insurance, including any subsequent, chronic or recurring complications -LSB-...]

A Pre-Existing Condition is defined as, «Any (1) condition for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment (includes receiving services and supplies, consultations, diagnostic tests or prescription medicines) was recommended or received... immediately preceding the Certificate Effective Date; (2) condition that had manifested itself in such a manner that would have caused a reasonably prudent person to seek medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment (includes receiving services and supplies, consultations, diagnostic tests or prescription medicines)... immediately preceding the Certificate Effective Date; (3) injury, illness, sickness, disease, or other physical, medical, mental, or nervous conditions, disorder or ailment (whether known or unknown) that, with reasonable medical certainty, existed at the time of application or... immediately preceding the Certificate Effective Date.»

When we look at schizophrenia, we'll see that it is defined as a severe, long term mental disorder that involves the breakdown in being able to distinguish the relationships between thought, emotion, and behavior which will typically lead to a faulty perception of reality causing inappropriate actions and emotions.

It still defines «psychological testing» as only the use of assessment instruments to diagnose mental and nervous disorders, and it keeps intact the explicit exemptions allowing MFTs to use tests that evaluate marital and family functioning and to use mental health symptom screening instruments, and so it does not cause us any harm.

It signifies expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of emotional and mental disorders based on advanced knowledge of human development, the causation and treatment of psychopathology, psychotherapeutic treatment practices, and social work practice as defined in advanced social work.

And because the psychologists a) defined «psychological testing» as only those tests used to diagnose mental and nervous disorders, thereby allowing non-psychologists to use any assessment instruments — such as the Myers - Briggs — that are not intended to arrive at a diagnosis; and b) included exemptions that explicitly recognize our authority to use tests that evaluate marital and family functioning — which is part of our Scope of Practice — and to use mental health symptom screening instruments — such as the Beck Depression Inventory — which MFTs often employ to make referral or treatment decisions, it made sense to limit «psychological testing» to psychologists.

Comorbid mental health symptoms were common: 28 % of youth reported significant externalizing symptoms or conduct problems (eg, disobedient, stealing, aggression), 60 22 % screened positive for posttraumatic stress disorder, 61 25 % endorsed 1 or more indicators of problematic substance use, 62 27 % reported suicidal ideation, 60 and 13 % reported suicide attempts or deliberate self - harm (defined as some suicidal ideation plus some suicide attempt or deliberate self - harm during the previous 6 months on the Youth Self Report).60 About 22 % reported specialty mental health care and psychotherapy / counseling in the past 6 months, and 16 % reported medication treatment in the past 6 months.

The framework is directed at decision and policy makers at national, state and local levels, and defines chronic conditions as «a broad range of chronic and complex health conditions across the spectrum of illness, including mental illness, trauma, disability and genetic disorders».

Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting list control design, and as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.

The scale does not have thresholds defining whether a score suggests the presence of a psychiatric disorder, so we have followed the approach taken in a previous GUS report (Marryat and Martin, 2010) and defined a relative threshold below which we classify mothers as having «poor» mental health (16 % of mothers were in this category in 2009/10), as opposed to «average or good» mental health.

Challenging behavior in the early years of development, defined as «any repeated pattern of behavior or perception of behavior that interferes with or is at risk of interfering with optimal learning or engagement in pro-social interactions with peers and adults» (Systems of service delivery: A synthesis of evidence relevant to young children at risk of or who have challenging behavior, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2003), can have pervasive deleterious effects on the child's social emotional functioning, learning, and longitudinal outcomes over time (Behav Disord, 32:29 — 45, 2006; Preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people: Progress and possibilities.