emotional disturbance

collocation in English

meaningsofemotionalanddisturbance

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emotional
adjective
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/
us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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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 ofemotionalanddisturbancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofemotional disturbance

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Some forms ofemotionaldisturbanceand their relationship to schizophrenia.
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That was likely to be the case withemotionaldisturbance.
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Anxiety, not depression, is the primaryemotionaldisturbancein patients with chronic hepatitis.
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Three ways to consider educational performance when determining seriousemotionaldisturbance.
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Nevertheless, it did not account for the rise inemotionaldisturbancebetween ages 6 and 11.
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It follows directly from using the organic disease analogy for considering behavioral andemotionaldisturbance.
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It is plausible that noise annoyance responses should be associated with behavioural manifestations ofemotionaldisturbance.
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Cognitive complaints in closed-head injury : relationship to memory test performance andemotionaldisturbance.
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The negative symptoms reflectingemotionaldisturbanceor lack of social interactions were unrelated to it.
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Her depression resolved after a year, and she was entered into a special school for children withemotionaldisturbance.
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It was important to check whether this apparent rise inemotionaldisturbancecould be an artifact of the cutoff used.
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According to parental report, no child had been diagnosed or suspected of having frank neurological impairment or social -emotionaldisturbance.
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No child had a history of frank neurologic impairment or psychological/emotionaldisturbanceor attention deficit disorder (from parent report).
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Emotionaldisturbancehad a more ambiguous etiology and was a term more often found in popular venues.
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In short, there was no selective tendency for deprivation-specific problems to lead to a new onset ofemotionaldisturbance.
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The family'semotionaldisturbancewill continue for months.
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Inevitably, he is showing signs ofemotionaldisturbance.
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Nevertheless, the age of 6 is too young for a valid assessment of possible effects of institutional deprivation onemotionaldisturbanceand disruptive behavior.
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It did not because the overlap (or co-occurrence) with deprivation-specific patterns applied toemotionaldisturbanceat all ages, regardless of later offset or onset.
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The final possibility was that low scholastic attainment might constitute the key risk factor foremotionaldisturbance, possibly mediated by low self-esteem.
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When these assumptions are intact, their violation causes considerableemotionaldisturbancebecause that shakes the foundation on which one's life plans have been based.
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Rather, it was in the subgroup of children without deprivation-specific problems that later onsetemotionaldisturbancewas a more typical feature.
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Nevertheless, there was substantial variation on the composite index of family difficulties, and this was unrelated to the onset ofemotionaldisturbance.
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Therefore, we conclude that, on balance, the findings suggest that the possibility that impaired emotional understanding predisposing to newemotionaldisturbance, has only limited suggestive support.
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The categorical findings therefore provide no support for the hypothesis that the late-onsetemotionaldisturbancewas a consequence of either educational failure or from low self-esteem.
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