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Deutsch: Psychische Gesundheitsbehandlung / Español: Tratamiento de salud mental / Português: Tratamento de saúde mental / Français: Traitement de la santé mentale / Italiano: Trattamento della salute mentale

The term Mental Health Treatment encompasses a broad spectrum of therapeutic interventions designed to address psychological disorders, emotional distress, and behavioral challenges. It integrates evidence-based practices from psychology, psychiatry, and related fields to improve individuals' cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. Effective treatment often combines pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial approaches tailored to the unique needs of patients.

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Mental hospitalization means placing a person in a protected, therapeutic environment staffed by mental health professionals.

Mental hygiene movement refers to a movement to treat mental patients more humanely and to view mental disorders as medical diseases.

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Mental illness is the term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the causes of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process.

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Mental image is a form of representational thought that involves the ability to hold the picture of a person, object, or event in one's mind even in the absence of the stimulus itself.

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Mental imagery refers to the internal representation of an external event.

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Mental images are internal images or visual depictions used in memory and thinking.

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Mental lexicon refers to the knowledge of words that speakers of a language possess; the dictionary in the head.