Adaptive daily functioning.

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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