Jorge, a first-year college student, has been steadily increasing the time he spends drinking with friends. He is now partying four 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?

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Layne

Social Studies

3 March, 05:00

Jorge, a first-year college student, has been steadily increasing the time he spends drinking with friends. He is now partying four 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?

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Marissa Adkins · Answer 1

The correct anwer is Disability.

Explanation:

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.