Categories of disorders

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Disorders can be categorized into mental disorders or physical disorders. Mental disorder is the far more common term and physical disorder is mostly used just for distinction purposes.

A list of categories of disorders of interest to psychologists.

A

• Adrenal disorders

• Adventitious disorders

• Allergic disorders

• Anxiety disorders

• Articulation disorders

• Attention disorders

• Autonomic nerve disorders

B

• Balance disorders

• Behavioral disorders

C

• Cephalic disorders

• Chromosomal disorders

• Communication disorders

• Congenital disorders

D

• Delusional disorders

• Depressive disorders

• Developmental disabilities

• Disc disorders

• Dissociative disorders

• Digestive disorders

E

• Emotionally disturbed

• Eye disorders

F

• Female genital disorders

• Fluency disorders

G

• Genetic disorders

H

• Hearing disorders

I

• Iatrogenic disorders

• Immune disorders

• Impulse Control disorders

L

• Language disorders

• Learning disorders

M

• Mental disorders

• Metabolic disorders

• Mood disorders

• Multiple dsabilities

N

• Nervous system disorders

• Neurological disorders

P

• Personality disorders

• Pervasive developmental disorders

• Psychiatric disorders

• Psychoactive substance abuse disorders

• Psychological disorders

• Psychotic disorders

• Puerperal disorders

R

• Repetitive Motion disorders

S

• Schizophrenia disorders

• Sexual disorders

• Sleep disorders

• Somatoform disorders

• Spastic disorders

• Speech disorders

• Spinal Cord disorders

• Systemic disorders

T

• Testicle disorders

• Thymus disorders

• Thyroid disorders

• Tonsil disorders

• Translocation Chromosome disorders

• Triplet Repeat Genetic disorders

V

• Voice disorders

X

• X Chromosome disorders

Y

• Y Chromosome disorders