Classifying normal and abnormal behavior

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Select one of the following challenges in defining and classifying normal and abnormal behavior.

Explain your selected challenge IN AT LEAST 200 words and how classification of abnormal behavior can vary widely based on the challenge you chose. In other words, you will be discussing how one of the following factors can complicate or interfere with the assessment as to whether behavior is normal or abnormal.

· Situational context

· Culture

· Ethnicity

· Historical relativism

· Evolving theory of knowledge

· Gender and sexual preferences/practices

· Mind/body

· Age

· Religion

· Continuum of abnormality

· Multiple causality.

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