AO1 - Failure to Function Adequately

• This definition is based on the idea that a person is unable to cope with everyday life.
• Rosenhan & Seligman (1989) describe seven features of personal dysfunction from ‘personal distress’ to ‘unpredictability’ and ‘violation of moral standards’.
• The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale assesses functioning on social, occupational and psychological levels.
• People may act differently but if they have a basic inability to manage in everyday life their behaviour is abnormal.
• Rosenhan & Seligman's 7 features are unpredictability, maladaptive behaviour, personal distress, irrationality, observer discomfort, violation of moral standards and unconventionality.
• Personal dysfunction was described in Rosenhan & Seligman's 7 features.