severe emotional disturbance
1disturbance — noun 1 actions that upset the normal state of sb/sth ADJECTIVE ▪ great, major, serious ▪ minimal, minimum, minor, slight ▪ environmental …
2emotional distress — emo·tion·al distress n: a highly unpleasant emotional reaction (as anguish, humiliation, or fury) which results from another s conduct and for which damages may be sought – called also emotional harm, mental anguish, mental distress, mental… …
3Autism — A spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and unusual and repetitive behavior. Some, but not all, people with autism are non verbal. Autism is normally diagnosed before age six and …
4SED — Serious Emotional Disturbance (Medical » Physiology) Surface conduction Electron emitter Display (Computing » Hardware) *** Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (Community » Law) *** Severely Emotionally Disturbed (Community » Educational) ** Severe… …
5Reading disability — A reading disability is a condition in which a sufferer displays difficulty reading resulting primarily from neurological factors. There are different types of reading disabilities that include Word Level Recoginiton Disability (RLRD), also known …
6anorexia nervosa — emaciation as a result of severe emotional disturbance, coined 1873 by William W. Gull (1816 1890), who also proposed apepsia hysterica as a name for it. See ANOREXIA (Cf. anorexia) …
7thal|a|mot|o|my — «THAL uh MOT uh mee», noun, plural mies. a surgical incision into the thalamus, as in the treatment of severe emotional disturbance. ╂[< thalam(us) + Greek tomíā a cutting] …
8mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
9Reactive attachment disorder — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = Reactive attachment disorder |thumb|190px Caption = Children need sensitive and responsive caregivers to develop secure attachments. DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|F|94|1|f|90, ICD10|F|94|2|f|90 ICD9 = 313.89 ICDO =… …
10syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …
