Disorders include such mental illnesses as mood disorders, like bipolar disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder which involves a variety of anxieties, compulsions, obsessions, and phobias. Without treatment sufferers are unable to adapt to social roles or establish appropriate interpersonal relationships. However, the term can be used in a broad sense to refer to any malfunction of mental, physical, or psychological adjustment.
There are three different approaches to describing human differences. The biological approach attributes abnormal behavior to physical causes such as genetics or physical trauma. The psychological approach stresses developmental or mental causes of abnormal behavior -- in other words, that normal cognitive and developmental patterns have gone awry. The ecological approach relates abnormal behavior more to the individual's interaction with the social as well as the physical environment than to a mental or physical disease.
Regardless of the causation of disorders,...
It tries to create a fair and level playing field for all Americans, by taking into account each person's special needs in regards to his or her disabilities. However, a reasonable accommodation would not constitute asking employer who was hiring a delivery driver to hire a blind person who was not able to legally operate a vehicle. Reasonable means responding to the needs of both the individual with the disability and the employer, academic institution, etc., who is modifying the conditions of employment or education to suit the disabled individual.
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