ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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is destructive to yourself or others and inhibits a person to adjust to particular situations.
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occurs without a rational basis.
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is troublesome to other people.
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is so different it violates a norm.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Maladaptive behaviors are those that inhibit a person’s ability to adjust to particular situations. Coping strategies can also be positive (adaptive) or negative (maladaptive). Maladaptive strategies include dissociation, sensitization, numbing out, anxious avoidance of a problem, and escape.
Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Maladaptive behavior is defined as behavior that interferes with an individual’s activities of daily living or ability to adjust to and participate in particular settings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Maladaptive behavior can result when a person just does not see a path to their desired future. This can happen with any chronic illness or major lifestyle change. With maladaptive behavior, self-destructive actions are taken to avoid undesired situations. One of the most used maladaptive behaviors is avoidance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The PID-5 describes five maladaptive traits: Negative affectivity and Detachment (internalizing in nature), Antagonism and Disinhibition (externalizing in nature) and Psychoticism.
Detailed explanation-5: -Maladaptive thinking may refer to a belief that is false and rationally unsupported-what Ellis called an “irrational belief.” An example of such a belief is that one must be loved and approved of by everyone in order to…