5-1

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. Use your template to address the rubric criteria listed below with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences per bullet. 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.