PSY 215 Module Five Milestone Template

Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information.

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 Module Five Milestone Guidelines and Rubric, 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.

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· Dysfunction: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior causes dysfunction by interfering with adaptive daily functioning.

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· Danger: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior presents as a danger to self or others.

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· Deviance: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior deviates from normality.

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