Abnormality - Failure to Function Adequately
revision notes of FFA.
- Created by: carispheasey
- Created on: 27-04-14 14:20
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- FFA
- Evaluation
- FFA may not be linked to psychological disorder
- inability to cope with the demand of everyday life is the cause rather than the outcome of a psychological disorder
- Example: supporting family, and job loss may be due to economic situation
- inability to cope with the demand of everyday life is the cause rather than the outcome of a psychological disorder
- behaviour that appears dysfunctional may be adaptive for the individual
- Example: psychological disorders such as eating disorders and anorexia may lead to welcome added attention for the individual
- who decides what is adequate
- it is tempting to say if someone wears dirty clothes, gives up their home they are not functioning adequately they may be exercising their right to live outside mainstream society as a new age traveller
- find themselves happier and live a more fulfilled live than when they lived 'normally'
- it is tempting to say if someone wears dirty clothes, gives up their home they are not functioning adequately they may be exercising their right to live outside mainstream society as a new age traveller
- FFA may not be linked to psychological disorder
- Definition
- Evaluation
- people who cannot cope with the demand of everyday life
- Definition
- example of this would be severe depression
- Abnormal behaviour interferes with the demand of everyday life
- Rosenhan and Seligman suggested that characteristics of abnormal behaviour related to this would be unpredictability and personal distress
- Abnormal behaviour interferes with the demand of everyday life
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