context: Psychopathology is the study of mental illness, mental stress, and abnormal / maladaptive behavior. This term is most often used in psychiatry where pathology refers to the disease process. Abnormal psychology is the same term used more often in the non-medical psychological field.
question: What is the definition of psychopathology?
answers.text: study of mental illness, mental stress, and abnormal / maladaptive behavior