person, place, time, and situation, to complete orientation. Assessment of a person's mental orientation is frequently designed to evaluate the need for...

Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic...

1983 by Paula Nurius, concerning the relationship between sexual orientation and mental health. 689 subjects—most of whom were students at various universities...

on a curve Orientation (graph theory), an assignment of a direction (orientation) to each edge of an undirected graph Orientation (mental), a function...

sexual orientation. Studies in the conducted in the United States have indicated that minorities have similar or smaller rates of prevalence for mental health...

The mini–mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a 30-point questionnaire that is used extensively in clinical and research settings to measure...

category of "sexual orientation disturbance". However, it was not until 1987 in DSM-III-R that it was entirely dropped as a mental disorder. A 2016 survey...

refer to the loss of orientation, or the ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location and personal identity. Mental confusion is sometimes...

sexual orientation." This was considered a major victory by gay activists, because it clearly articulated a shift from considering homosexuality a mental disorder...

biology and sexual orientation is a subject of on-going research. While scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, they theorize that...

Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite...

Romantic orientation, also called affectional orientation, is the classification of the sex or gender which a person experiences romantic attraction towards...

non-binary gender people Ego-dystonic sexual orientation, mental disorder of having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized...

pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and...

and mental health professions is that homosexuality per se is a normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation, and therefore not a mental disorder...

social group, usually defined by race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, mental disorder, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender...

cranial nerves, spinal cord and peripheral nerves) Psychiatric (orientation, mental state, mood, evidence of abnormal perception or thought). Respiratory...

sexual orientation that emerges later in the individual. Prenatal hormones may be seen as the primary determinant of adult sexual orientation, or a co-factor...

actual sexual orientation. While the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and American Psychiatric Association state that sexual orientation is innate,...

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes...

Chaining Character orientation Character structure Charisma Cheating Chemical imbalance Child (archetype) Child abuse Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services...

Student orientation or new student orientation (often encapsulated into an orientation week, o-week, frosh week, welcome week or freshers' week) is a period...

of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal...

sexual orientation is difficult for a variety of reasons, including the nature of the research questions. Most of the studies on sexual orientation rely...

people to heterosexuality. Scientists and mental health professionals generally do not believe that sexual orientation is a choice. There are no studies of...

Goal orientation, or achievement orientation, is an "individual disposition towards developing or validating one's ability in achievement settings". In...

is an American-Canadian sexologist who researches pedophilia, sexual orientation and gender identity. He has found that men with more older brothers are...

human sexual orientation, and is not a mental disorder. The APA's Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation affirms the tension...

enduring attraction) and sexual orientation identity (which may change at any point in a person's life). Scientists and mental health professionals generally...

also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and mental retardation, is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized...