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| abnormal psychology | branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought |
| clinical psychology | the applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand and treat psychological conditions |
| Hippocrates | father of Western medicine |
| reductionism | explaining a disorder or other complex phenomena using only a single idea or perspective |
| precipitating cause | an immediate trigger that instigates a person's action or behavior |
| predisposing cause | an underlying factor that interacts with the immediate factors to result in a disorder |
| multiple causality | explaining mental disorders with a combination of theoretical perspectives |
| statistical abnormailty | a certain behavior/characteristic is relevant to a low percentage of the population |
| psychometric abnormality | a certain behavior/characteristic differs from the population's normal dispersion |
| somatogenic | abnormality is seen as a result of biological disorders in the brain |
| psychogenic | abnormality is caused by psychological problems |
| DSM-IV | It lists a set of disorders and provides detailed descriptions on what constitutes a disorder |
| Axis I | Symptom Disorders |
| Axis II | Personality Disorders |
| Axis III | General medical conditions |
| Axis IV | Psychosocial/environmental problems |
| Axis V | Global assessment of functioning |
| ICD-10 | major international nosologic system for the classification of mental disorders |
