You are planning a continuing education seminar with your service's medical director. After you both decide that behavioral emergencies need to be addressed, he asks you to define normal behavior. You would reply:

Although a universal definition is difficult to establish, normal behavior is generally defined as behavior that is readily accepted within a society. Behavior that a person thinks is normal for him or herself may not be accepted by society and therefore is not considered normal. An example would be a person who thinks that clothing is optional to wear in a public setting. Just because a particular behavior does not hurt anyone does not make it normal. Again, not wearing clothes in public does not hurt anyone, but is typically frowned upon in modern society. A person’s observable conduct or activity describes behavior in a general sense and does not distinguish between normal and abnormal.