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.
Psychosis is a serious disease that produces great discomfort because of losing touch with
reality (Hooley et al., 2020). This gap causes people to have difficulties discriminating
between true and misleading impressions. For example, a person suffering from
psychosis may be convinced that their meal has been poisoned, producing intense worry
and anxiety about being hurt. This idea not only makes people feel threatened, but it also
breeds distrust and anguish toward individuals whom they accuse of poisoning their food.
Dysfunction: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior causes dysfunction by
interfering with adaptive daily functioning.
Psychosis can create severe dysfunction by interfering with an individual's daily
activities. For example, a typical sort of psychosis is the illusion of being observed or
followed by authorities like the police or FBI. This hallucination might cause the
individual to isolate oneself at home to avoid apparent monitoring or to grow paranoid
about household equipment, believing they contain listening devices. Furthermore, they
may distrust their closest family members and friends, considering them to be impostors
or spies. This persistent misperception disrupts their personal and social lives, generating
serious dysfunction by increasing isolation and distrust.
Danger: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior presents as a danger to self or
others.
Psychosis may be harmful for both the affected person and others around them. For
example, someone suffering from psychosis may feel their food is poisoned and cease
eating to avoid imagined damage, resulting in severe malnutrition or famine.
Furthermore, if they feel someone is guilty of poisoning their meal, they may get enraged
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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.
Psychosis is a serious disease that produces great discomfort because of losing touch with
reality (Hooley et al., 2020). This gap causes people to have difficulties discriminating
between true and misleading impressions. For example, a person suffering from
psychosis may be convinced that their meal has been poisoned, producing intense worry
and anxiety about being hurt. This idea not only makes people feel threatened, but it also
breeds distrust and anguish toward individuals whom they accuse of poisoning their food.
Dysfunction: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior causes dysfunction by
interfering with adaptive daily functioning.
Psychosis can create severe dysfunction by interfering with an individual's daily
activities. For example, a typical sort of psychosis is the illusion of being observed or
followed by authorities like the police or FBI. This hallucination might cause the
individual to isolate oneself at home to avoid apparent monitoring or to grow paranoid
about household equipment, believing they contain listening devices. Furthermore, they
may distrust their closest family members and friends, considering them to be impostors
or spies. This persistent misperception disrupts their personal and social lives, generating
serious dysfunction by increasing isolation and distrust.
Danger: Describe the extent to which the selected behavior presents as a danger to self or
others.
Psychosis may be harmful for both the affected person and others around them. For
example, someone suffering from psychosis may feel their food is poisoned and cease
eating to avoid imagined damage, resulting in severe malnutrition or famine.
Furthermore, if they feel someone is guilty of poisoning their meal, they may get enraged
1
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