highfunctioningとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Compound of high +‎ functioning

形容詞

high-functioning ‎(comparative more high-functioning または higher functioning または higher-functioning, superlative most high-functioning または highest functioning または highest-functioning)

1. Functioning or operating at a high level.
   • 1978, Allen E. Bergen; Sol Louis Garfield, Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change: An Empirical Analysis, New York: Wiley, ISBN 0471291781, page 944:

     The high-functioning therapists were found to have a greater tendency to confront patients and, when they did so, confronted them with their resources.

2. (psychology, of persons with developmental または intellectual disability または mental illness) Able to function in society; not greatly affected by disability or illness.
   • 1986 January 1, R.M. Fox, D.R. Bechtel, C. Bird, J. Livesay, and R. Bittle, “A comprehensive institutional treatment program for aggressive-disruptive high functioning mentally retarded persons”, in Behavioral Residential Treatment, volume 1, number 1, ISSN 0884-5581, pages 39-56:

     A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses...

3. (psychology, of persons with autism) Showing relatively high cognitive function.
   • 1996 August 1, Don J. Siegel and Nancy J. Minshew, “Wechsler IQ profiles in diagnosis of high-functioning autism”, in Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, volume 26, number 4, ISSN 1573-3432, pages 389-406:

     Analysis of Wechsler IQ test scores for high-functioning autistic children and adults with Verbal and Full Scale IQ≥70 only partially supports previous contentions about the presence of a distinct profile of scores in autism.