Failure To Function Adequately

Question 1

What is failure to function adequately?

Answer 1

When someone’s behaviour suggests they cannot cope with everyday demands

Question 2

What are the features of personal dysfunction?

Answer 2

Maladaptive behaviour
• Stops from attaining life goals

Irrationality
• Behaviour can’t be explained rationally

Observer discomfort
• Behaviour causes discomfort to others

Unpredictability
• unexpected behaviours

Question 3

What is a strength of FFA?

Answer 3

Focuses on individuals experience
• Acknowledges and considers how individual feels
—> Allows us to view mental disorders
from perspective of person
experiencing it

Question 4

What is a limitation of FFA? (Accompany)

Answer 4

Some abnormal behaviours don’t accompany FFA
• Some abnormal behaviours don’t stop person from functioning/cause distress
—> Harold shipman murdered 215
patients but did not display any
features of dysfunction

Question 5

What is a limitation for FFA? (Normality)

Answer 5

Normal Abnormality
• Some situations it is healthy to FFA
—> e.g grieving when a loved one dies
is a natural response