There seems a sublime difference between the mental disorders and behabioural disorders. Sometimes we are not aware of the difference between them. It is also difficult to draw a line between these two. All mental disorders are behavioural disorders but all behavioural disorders are not mental disorders. Physiological and psychological factors (internal factors) dominate in mental disorders whereas in behavioural disorders sociological factors (external factors) dominate.
These are important distinctions to make. In addition to a relational approach, I do think it is critical to acknowledge and examine the influence of contexts on mental and behavioral disorders in addition to the internal factors you pointed out. Thanks!
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In addition to the earlier contributions, I think another distinction is that in many cases, behavioral disorders tend to be situationally based, whereas mental health disorders are more generalized in scope and in individual functionality, and less restrictive to situations.
Comfort Asanbe
Well i think you should try to draw i line what is behavoural disorder, respectively also in which time and culture and under what circumstances and who is giving the standardization. These are important questions to solve, before you go into the so declared pathological situation. And then i am not sure why mental disorders should include behavioural disorders. A schizophrenic might live without his surrounding noticing his problem.
In many cultures behaviour committed under the diagnosis of suffering from a mental disorder will be legally treated differently than behaviour described as behavioural disorder (?anti-social behaviour). The same behaviours may have major implications with admission to a Special (psychiatric) Secure hospital compared to a prison. Mike Berry
I guess I need a little more clarification are we defining the difference between social maladjustment or Conduct Disorder type behavior disorders and mental health diagnoses such as Dysthymia, Schizophrenia, Anxiety, etc.? This is an interesting string!
The nature of discussion is very general. Mental disorders cover all aspects of mind including brain and behaviour disorders are largely determined by social norms, ethics, values, customs etc.
Mental disorder is an attitudinal disorder of mind.It is subjective. It may be expressed or may not be expressed.
Behavioural disorder is expressed through body using brain. It is objectively observable. So can be understandable by Scientific means. Usually Science refers Behavioural disorders as Mental disorders. But most of Mental disorders are not in reach of Scientific means.
Prior to Discussing about MENTAL DISORDER, we have to know about MIND and MENTAL ORDER. Is n't it ?
behavioural disorder means any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain but Mental disorders are usually defined by a combination of how a person feels, acts, thinks or perceives.
psychiatric conditions that manifest primarily with involuntary symptoms are mental disorders while conditions that manifest primarily as dysfunctional behaviors are behavioral disorders (Bienvenu, Davydow and Kendler, 2011).
For the first condition, disease reasoning is used. This assumes there is essentially a problem in brain functioning e.g schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, depression or mania. The second condition is predicated on behavioral reasoning. The assumption here is that a person has an health condition due to what s/he is doing. This is linked to individual choices, the antecedents and the consequences. Examples of behavioral disorders are alcohol and drug use disorders, anorexia nervosa.
While clinicians tend to treat behavioral disorders by persuading patients to choose to alter their behaviors i.e. invoking learning principles, mental disorders tend to be managed with medications.
Volition is invoked in the distinction between the two conditions. The symptoms of Mental disorders arise involuntarily while behavioral disorders primarily involve voluntary control.
However the authors mentioned above concluded these common sense assumptions about the etiology of disorders is erroneous given that behavioral disorders seem to have more heritable than conditions commonly perceived as diseases (mental). In other words, the distinction become blurred when genetic reasoning is invoked.
In cases of such attitudinal disorders like addictions and habituations, we need not attach inheritance.
What is primary cause of mental disorder ?
Is it mental attitude or Genes ?
I think Cause is in the mind, effect is seen in the body.
Genes also may be under total control of the MIND
In some level of the mental disorder can be treated by acupuncture or herbs or ear seeds.
Behavior disorder can be treated with NLP.
If both of them are severe, besides needing treatment, should go through a longer program to transform the patient. However, if too much drug's toxins damaged organs, it's a tough task to turn the patient's life around.
In Chinese medicine, a mental disorder can relate to organ's health. You can learn the relationship from the attached link near the end of the linked article.
http://happypinmasterhealer.com/emotional-disorder-acupuncture-treatment/
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