Failure to Function Adequately

Question 1

What is failure to function adequately?

Answer 1

Where a person is considered abnormal if they are unable to cope with the demands of everyday life and live independently in society

Question 2

What did Rosenman and Seligman create?

Answer 2

A criteria which is said to indicate whether a person is failing to function adequately

Question 3

What are the 7 criteria?

Answer 3

1. Unpredictability & loss of control
2. Unconventionality
3. Maladaptiveness
4. Violation of ideal standards
5. Observer discomfort
6. Irrationality
7. Personal Distress

Question 4

What is maladaptiveness?

Answer 4

Behaviour that interferes with an individual’s activities of daily living or ability to adjust to and participate in particular settings

Question 5

What is a strength of failure to function adequately?

Answer 5

Does not attempt to include the subjective experience of the individual, it acknowledges that the experiment of the patient is important

Question 6

What is a limitation of failure to function adequately?

Answer 6

It can be hard to say when someone is really failing to function, if we treat some behaviours as failures we risk limiting personal freedom and discriminating against minority groups

Question 7

What is another limitation of failure to function adequately?

Answer 7

It is a subjective judgement, someone has to judge whether a patient is distressed or distressing which is subjective to different people