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| A system of health-care coverage in which the insurance company largely controls the nature, scope, and cost of medical or psychological services. |
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| gender-sensitive therapies |
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| Treatment approaches geared to the special pressures of being a woman in Western society. Also called feminist therapies. |
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| culture-sensitive therapies |
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| Treatment approaches that seek to address the unique issues faced by members of various cultural and ethnic groups. |
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| The field of psychology that examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and similar factors on our behaviors and thoughts and also focuses on how such factors may influence the origin, nature, and treatment of abnormal behavior |
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| The study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits, and abilities. |
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| A key feature of community mental health programs that seek to prevent or minimize psychological disorders. |
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| An arrangement in which a person directly pays a therapist for counseling services. |
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| The discharge of large numbers of patients from long-term institutional care so that they might be treated in community programs. |
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| Drugs that primarily affect the brain and reduce various symptoms of mental dysfunctioning. |
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| Either the theory or the treatment of abnormal psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology. |
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| The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological. |
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| The view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes. |
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| A state-run public mental institutions in the United States. |
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| A nineteenth-century approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and humane and respectful treatment. |
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| A type of institution first established in the sixteenth century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most become virtual prisons. |
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| According to Greek and Roman physicians, bodily chemicals that influence mental and physical functioning. |
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| The practice in early societies of treating abnormality by coaxing evil spirits to leave the person's body. |
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| An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior. |
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| A people's common history, values, institutions, habit, skills, technology, and arts. |
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| A society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct. |
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| The scientific study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. |
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| A procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior |
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