Mental disorder definition

Mental disorder means any organic, mental, or emotional
Mental disorder means any organic, mental, or emotional impairment which has substantial adverse effects on a person's cognitive or volitional functions;
Mental disorder means any organic, mental, or emotional impairment that has substantial adverse effects on an individual's cognitive or volitional functions.

Examples of Mental disorder in a sentence

  • Individuals are excluded if they have one of the following singular or primary diagnoses: • Substance-related disorder; • Mental disorder due to known physiological condition; or • IDD, including autism spectrum disorder.

  • Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescents.

  • Mental disorder types reported here are the clinician’s initial assessment during a patient’s first appointment at a DCMH, based on presenting complaints, therefore final diagnosis may differ as some patients do not show full range of symptoms, signs or clinical history during their first appointment.

  • Monahan J: Mental disorder and violent behavior: perceptions and evidence.

  • Mental disorder and comorbidity among runaway and homeless adolescents.


More Definitions of Mental disorder

Mental disorder means a substantial disorder of the person's
Mental disorder means any organic, mental, or emotional impairment that has substantial adverse effects on an individual's cognitive or volitional functions. The presence of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, juvenile criminal history, antisocial behavior, or intellectual disabilities alone is insufficient to justify a finding of "mental disorder" within the meaning of this section.
Mental disorder means a substantial disorder of the person's emotional processes, thought, cognition, or memory. Mental disorder is distinguished from:
Mental disorder means a serious emotional and mental disturbance that severely
Mental disorder means a condition listed in DSM−IV.
Mental disorder means any of the disorders set forth in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition), published by the American Psychiatric Association, and a degree of functional impairment that renders a person eligible for the services enumerated under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (commencing with Section 5000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).
Mental disorder means the same as in A.R.S. § 36-501.