Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Essentials of Understanding Psychology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259531804
Author: Robert S Feldman Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Introduction: A psychological disorder is a clinically significant disturbance that is associated with emotion regulation, behavior, or cognition of an individual. Psychological disorders are usually related to the significant distress in the biological, psychological, or developmental processes repressing the mental functioning. They affect the normal activities of a person on every aspect of life including thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviors, and outlook.

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