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Module 65
UNIT 8 Introduction to Psychological Disorders
Term | Definition |
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psychological disorder | a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regular, or behavior. |
medical model | the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnoses, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. |
epigentics | the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change. |
DSM-5 | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |