psychopathology
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8.4
- noun
- /ˌsaɪkoʊpəˈθɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
:
psicopatología
- Understanding psychopathology is essential for mental health professionals to help their patients effectively.
- child psychopathology
- high psychopathology
- level of psychopathology
Examples
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Finally, with increasing sophistication in diagnosis and treatment of psychopathology, we need not give up the medical model.
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The YSR is comprised of 112 items designed to measure eight dimensions of psychopathology among adolescents ages 11 to 18.
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All these sources were needed in order to identify the full spectrum of psychopathology children experience.
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I work with the special detail that focuses on psychopathology.
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Researchers should also focus their attention on identifying types of psychopathology other than violent behavior.
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However, no attempt was made to assess individual spouse psychopathology in this study.
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Another issue concerns the impact of individual spouse psychopathology, such as depression, on marital conflict.
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The traditional model of wellness places happiness on a continuum with psychopathology, each being at opposite ends.
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So when I first was in grad school, my area of specialization was adult psychopathology and forensics.
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Results could demonstrate that indices of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology have different relations with subjective well-being.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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4.3
The study of people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior
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4.2
The part of medicine that helps people with mental health problems
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4.0
The part of psychology that finds and treats mental health problems
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4.6
The study of unusual behavior, feelings, and thoughts
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4.1
A field that studies how people think, feel, and act
A part of health care that finds and treats mental health problems
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychopathology = pathology (semi-transparent) = psycho + patho + logy
The word is built transparently from psycho- plus pathology, but the technical meaning of pathology and the specialized reference to mental disorders make the connection only partly obvious to learners.
Etymology
Psychopathology comes from Greek parts psyche 'mind', patho 'suffering' or 'disease', and -logy 'study', so it literally means the 'study of mind disease' and refers to the scientific study of mental disorders.