Failure to Function Adequately

?

Defintions of Abnormality- Failure to Function Adequately

  • By using practical criteria of adequate functioning, mentally healthy people are judged as being able to cope with daily life within acceptable limits.
  • As soon as an individual's behaviour starts to interfere with daily functioning, it may be considered as abnormal according to this criteria.

 Limitations

  • Cultural Relativism - Defintions of adequate functioning are also related to cultural ideas of how individual's should lead their life, meaning that the 'failure to function' principle is likely to result in different

Comments

No comments have yet been made