DSM-V: Abnormal Behavior Analysis

The DSM-V is an industry standardized criteria for psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose and treat psychological disorders. The DSM-V defines abnormal or mental disorder as a “significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in psychological, biological or development process” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 20). This definition attempts to incorporate a variety of attributes that are consistent with abnormal behavior. It uses methodology in associating a compilation of antecedents, concurrent, and predictive behavior validators and descriptors in distinguishing normal from abnormal.
Normality varies by person, time, place, culture, and situation and