Jorge, a first-year college student, has been steadily increasing the time he spends drinking with friends. He is now partying f
our or five days out of the week. This has affected his class attendance, schoolwork and job. Jorge meets which characteristic for defining a psychological disorder?
Psychiatric disability is defined as a characteristic of a mental illness that significantly interferes with the individual's ability to develop daily activities such as working, studying and communicating. In Jorge's case he's clearly expereiencing a mental illnes that causes disability because of Jorge's poor class attendance, as well as schoolwork and job.