emotional disturbance
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7.4
- noun
- /ɪˈmoʊʃənl dɪsˈtɜːrbəns/
- Specialized
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trastorno emocional
- The therapist explained that emotional disturbance can manifest as extreme mood swings and anxiety.
- extreme emotional disturbance
- mental and emotional disturbance
Examples
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Teachers are trained to recognize signs of emotional disturbance in students to provide appropriate support.
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The Victim Scale is correlated with anxiety, depression, emotional disturbance, and issues with anger.
Academic text (2006) -
Samuels defines these "judgmental" disabilities as learning disabilities, mental retardation, and emotional disturbance.
Academic text (2011) -
The most global indicator of serious emotional disturbance, according to Reynolds and Kamphaus, is the T Score represented by the Emotional Symptoms Index (ESI); therefore, it was chosen as the measure of overall emotional adjustment in the present study.
Academic text (1997) -
RET maintains that global, stable, internal attributions for failure only lead to emotional disturbance because the person also holds a self-condemning scheme that he or she is worthless if he or she possesses such limitations.
Academic text (1990) -
Ellis eventually came to believe that much emotional disturbance could be prevented if children could be taught to think rationally early on and if parents could apply rational principles of emotional self-control to themselves (see article by Joyce in this series).
Academic text (1990) -
After experiencing significant loss, she was diagnosed with emotional disturbance that affected her daily life.
Synonyms
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3.3
A condition that causes problems with thinking, feeling, or behaving
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7.5
A mental illness that causes strong, lasting changes in mood, like depression or bipolar condition
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5.1
A mental condition that causes strong, long-lasting problems with feelings, not caused by clear brain damage
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6.1
A problem in a person's mind that affects thinking or feeling
A serious mental illness that causes very low or very high mood
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally built from 'emotional' (relating to feelings) and 'disturbance' (a disorder or upset), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer it refers to an emotional problem or disorder. While the entry denotes a specific legal classification in U.S. education, that administrative nuance does not prevent learners from deriving the core meaning from the constituents.
Etymology
Emotional disturbance paints a picture of feelings being shaken: emotional means feelings and disturbance means something that upsets, like a stone dropped in a calm pond making waves, so it means 'a problem with mood or strong emotions' that affects a person's life.