mental disturbance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalanddisturbance
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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disturbance
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈstɜː.bəns/us/dɪˈstɝː.bəns/
something that interrupts someone or makes someone ...
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(Definition ofmentalanddisturbancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This failure to conceptualize childhoodmentaldisturbanceas distinct from adultmentaldisturbance reflected the sociocultural belief that children were merely smaller versions of adults.
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In the next subsections, we discuss the impact of stigmatization whenmentaldisturbancehas its onset during childhood or adolescence.
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The time was ripe for a more useful and descriptive psychiatric nosology of childhoodmentaldisturbance.
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He saw that survivors faced the problems of containment andmentaldisturbance.
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Given that typhus caused severementaldisturbance, hallucinations, and paralysis, the traumatic effects of this disease required expert psychological and psychiatric help.
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Finally, the woman's reaction to pregnancy, and the type and degree of thementaldisturbanceare also assessed.
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Behind the brief diagnoses ofmentaldisturbanceis an extremely complicated background which has been studied thoroughly by social workers, psychiatrists and gynaecologists.
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Establishing a risk factor does not in and of itself complete a developmental agenda in terms of delineating cause or course ofmentaldisturbance.
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Prospective study of adultmentaldisturbancein offspring of woman with psychosis.
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During this same time period, the advent of behaviorism supported the study ofmentaldisturbancein children, but did not see it as a distinct process.
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There are some cases ofmentaldisturbancewhich are not treatable in the present state of modern science.
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He may have little appreciation of the nature of hismentaldisturbanceand his judgment may be grossly disturbed.
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However, that struck me as a sign ofmentaldisturbance.
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It is very important to realise that loneliness aggravatesmentaldisturbance.
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Around one-fifth of the sample were found to have some degree ofmentaldisturbance.
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Also, in short-stay units there are likely to be wide differences in the degree ofmentaldisturbancein the young people concerned.
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I realise, of course, that there is some amount of emotional tension andmentaldisturbancein such a change of life.
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I cannot find it in my heart to feel the slightest surprise, or indignation, ormentaldisturbanceat it.
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