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| the science of promoting mental health and preventing mental disorder through education, early treatment, and public health measures. |
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| Targets groups of people who have not developed a disorder to decrease overall rates of a given problem |
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| Addresses problems while they are still manageable and before they become resistant to intervention. |
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| Reduces duration and negative effects of a mental disorder after it occurs in an individual. |
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| Associated with mental disorder can result in discrimination, social avoidance, and failure to seek treatment. It can be fought via education and by promoting personal contact with those with a mental disorder. |
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| A group of emotional, cognitive, or behavioral symptoms that cause distress or significant problems. |
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| The scientific study of troublesome feelings, thoughts, and behaviors associated with mental disorders.Designed to evaluate, understand, predict and prevent mental disorders. |
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| One that interferes with a person's life, including ability to care for one's self, have good relationships with others and function well at school or work. |
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| Study mental problems to see how they develop and how they can be prevented or alleviated |
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| Places set aside for people with mental disorders. |
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| A prevention approach that focuses on promoting good health and good health practices to avert disease. |
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| ways of looking at things;causes of mental disorders, assessment of mental disorders,prevention and treatment of mental disorders |
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| genetics, neurotransmitters, brain changes, and other physical factors. |
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| focuses on personal growth, choice and responsibility |
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| focuses on internal personality characteristics |
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| cognitive-behavioral model |
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| focuses on specific thoughts and learning experiences |
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| focuses on external environmental events and includes the family systems perspective |
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| the unique behavior and lifestyle shared by a group of people |
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| is a biological or psychological predisposition to disorder can be biological, psychological, or impulsive |
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| a mental framework that allows you to make sense of aspects of your environment. Schemas enable you to interact with your environment in an automatic manner without effortful thought |
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| cause of (mental disorders) |
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| the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and with detection of the source and cause of epidemics of infectious disease. |
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| New cases of a mental disorder within a certain time period such as a month or a year. |
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| all cases of a mental disorder including new and existing cases within an existing time period such as a month or a yr. |
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| two or more disorders in a person |
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| significant differences in disorder expression depending on demographic features such as age or gender. |
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| refers to proportion of those who have had a certain mental disorder at any time in their life up to the point they were assessed. |
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| can be biological, psychological or social~ a characteristic that precedes a mental disorder and is correlated with that disorder |
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| associated with LOWER risk of mental disorder. the flip side of risk factors. |
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| The ability to withstand and rise above extreme adversity. |
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| refers to thwarting the development of later problems, may be more effective than tx after a mental disorder occurs. |
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| similar to secondary prevention;targeted towards those who are more likely than the general population to develop a mental disorder. |
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| targets INDIVIDUALS who are at very high risk for developing extensive problems in the future.Focus on people who have not yet developed a full blown mental disorder. |
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| defining abnormal behavior along a continuum or spectrum~ emotional states, cognitive styles or ways of thinking and physical behavior. |
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| a large class of frequently observed mental disorders composed of abnormal behaviors or features that occur in a person.A yes-no approach. |
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| rules that outline how many and what features of a mental disorder must be present |
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