Topic: abnormal psychology
Prompt
The following resources support your work on this activity:
Reading: Conceptualizing Psychiatric Disorders Using “Four D’s” of Diagnoses
For this milestone, you will use the Four D’s diagnostic indicators to analyze one behavior that might impair a person’s adaptive daily functioning. You will determine if that behavior could potentially represent a clinical disorder. Support your answers with a credible source when necessary.
From the list in the Overview, select one behavior that might impair a person’s adaptive daily functioning, then address the following:
Distress: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior causes distress as characterized by mental or emotional imbalance.
Dysfunction: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior causes dysfunction by interfering with adaptive daily functioning.
Danger: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior presents as a danger to self or others.
Deviance: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior deviates from normality.
