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Legal Protection for Parents With Mental Disorders
Legal Protection for Parents With Mental Disorders The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) are federal laws that may help to protect persons with disabilities (PWDs) against discrimination in the courts as well as in other areas. The ADA and the ADAAA prohibit discrimination based on disability in employment, housing, and […]
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identifying mental disorders in primary care
Medically unexplained symptoms: clues to identifying mental disorders in primary care Suspect depression or anxiety in anyone with: • physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a physical illness; • multiple symptoms such as aches and pains in different regions of the body, tiredness, dizziness, sleep problems, palpitations, tingling numbness in the fingers; • a […]
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social stress acts as a risk factor for mental disorders
The goal of understanding how social stress acts as a risk factor for mental disorders in urban populations may be pursued onseveral levels. Effects of infrastructure (population density, accessto green space), economic issues (rates of employment, workingconditions), environmental pollutants (air pollution, noise, toxins,light) and social conditions (social coherence, density of socialnetworks) need to be considered […]
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Social stress risk factor for mental disorders
During evolution, processing and performing complex social interaction emerged as a key factor driving the development of larger brains in primates and humans.Social skills that are necessary for profiting from diversification of knowledge, for refining commercial relationships or for building tactical alliances in order to expand power, substantially contributed to the success of the human […]
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Classification of mental disorders of childhood and adolescence
Psychiatric disorders have been estimated to occur in about 20% of children, but only about half of these experience psychosocial impairment, which is commonly used as the threshold by which to defi ne the need for treatment. ‘Psychosocial impairment’ refers to a signifi cant effect of symptoms on functioning in one of the areas in […]
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Mental Disorders: What Are Dysfunctions?
A dysfunction is a failure of some mechanism to perform its natural function as designed by nature. For example, the natural function of the heart is to pump blood; the natural function of perception is to convey information about the environment; the natural function of emotions is to avoid harm and enhance pleasure. A mechanism […]
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Mental Disorders: External Behavior or Internal
Mental Disorders: External Behavior or Internal Mechanisms Two frequent criticisms of Wakefield’s concept of internal mechanisms are that the notion is both ‘‘mentalistic’’ (a term that drives strict behaviorists crazy) and biological. Most psychologists would agree that what goes on inside a person is important. However, important scientific methods and procedures must be considered when […]
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Mental Disorders: Scientific Concepts or Value
Judgments? It is true that many forms of abnormal behavior are normative concepts based on value judgments. Most mental disorders are negative conditions that justify social concerns, but defining them in terms of pure value judgments allows classifying many socially disapproved behaviors as disorders when they clearly are not. Incarcerated Soviet dissidents, ‘‘childhood masturbation disorder,’’ […]
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User perspectives on mental disorders
Thus far, we have proposed a four-quadrant schema for understanding human experience and have described disordered human experience in terms of classification systems, incidence data and symptomatology. They objectify human experience into codified systems of description, including numbers. So, having proposed a four-quadrant integration we have subsequently planted our feet firmly in only one! Well, […]
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Prevalence and symptomatology of mental disorders
Prevalence, expressed as a percentage, refers to the number of people with a particular disorder within a given population. Incidence, on the other hand, also expressed as a percentage, refers to the number of new cases that arise within a given population in a given time period. Actual estimates of prevalence and incidence of mental […]
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