Amara has developed an extreme obsession with cleanliness and contamination. She spends up to six hours every day washing her hands and sterilising every surface in her home with industrial-grade bleach, resulting in painful chemical burns on her skin. Due to the time spent on these rituals, Amara has been unable to keep up with her freelance graphic design work, leading to lost contracts and financial instability. She has also completely stopped visiting her family because she believes their homes are highly contaminated, a belief that is completely unshared by anyone else in her social circle.
Describe how deviance and dysfunction could be used to diagnose Amara as having a mental health disorder.
110 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Diagnosis of mental disorders (4 Ds), Classification systems (DSM and ICD), Schizophrenia and one other disorder, Treatments for the two disorders, Individual differences, and Developmental psychology. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.