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Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [ 7] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [ 8] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [ 9] which ...
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [ 6] a mental health condition, [ 7] or a psychiatric disability, [ 2] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [ 8] A mental disorder is also characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's ...
Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [ 1] The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
Emotional intelligence ( EI) is defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can recognize their own emotions and those of others, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, and adjust ...
In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. [ 1] Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment. Excessive amounts of stress, however, can increase the risk of strokes, heart attacks, ulcers, and mental ...
There is ongoing debate among mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, about the definitions and criteria used to delineate mental disorders. There is particular concern over whether certain conditions should be classified as "mental illnesses" or might more accurately be described as neurological disorders or in other terms. [4]
anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines. Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences. It must be understood by the affected person as directly threatening the affected person ...
Psychiatry, psychology. Emotional and behavioral disorders ( EBD; also known as behavioral and emotional disorders) [ 1][ 2] refer to a disability classification used in educational settings that allows educational institutions to provide special education and related services to students who have displayed poor social and/or academic progress.