Essays on Aspd

Karen appears to have a very positive attitude about her future. She seems to have realized that the end of her relationship wasn’t about her but was about the lack of commitment on her partner’s part. Karen’s strengths lie in the fact that she is positive about her future and that she is making plans for that future. She has an optimistic outlook on her dating future and is committing herself to a gym membership. This indicates that she is moving in a forward direction. Karen could be afraid of the stigma that can be attached ...

Homework 5

When submitting this file, be sure the Be sure you have reviewed this module/week’s lesson and presentations along with the practice data analysis before proceeding to the homework exercises. Complete all analyses in SPSS, then copy and paste your output and graphs into your homework document file. Answer any written questions (such as the text-based questions or the APA Participants section) in the appropriate place within the same file. The data in the columns to the left represent IQ scores of a sample of 30 high school students. In the general population, IQ scores have a mean of ...

Introduction

Many people do not take mental and personality disorders seriously. Nowadays, these disorders are often regarded as mere expressions and temporary states, rather than a serious condition that needs medical attention. For instance, people who are very organized and perfectionist about things, tend to say that they have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OC), when in fact, OCD is far more than being neat, and organized, and wanting perfection in all things. Another instance is when people experience “mood swings”, which are actually normal and are caused by hormones, people have the tendency to self-diagnose saying that they have Bipolar Disorder, when, ...

Abstract

Neuropsychological conditions, severed linkage, and disrupted neural network are highly involved in the development of antisocial personality disorder. Research in neuroscience is starting to uncover the biological substrates justifying the cause of ASPD. There are several and complex models used to unravel the mystery behind the brain’s role in the development of antisocial personality condition. Each of them offered significant clues in linking the condition with the neurological impairment in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. In this study, the previous researches will be explored to justify claims that the biological substrate of ASPD condition is the impairment ...

A psychopath is defined as an individual suffering from chronic personality disorder with violent or abnormal social behavior. The term Psychopath brings to mind thought of violent acts. The study on psychopaths defines individuals who are incapable feeling fear, empathy and stress. The psychopaths are identified on the basis of their cold-heartedness, superficial charm, irresponsibility, criminality, egocentricity and parasitic life. The psychopath is termed as the most fascinating and yet distressing problem in the human experience (Adrian, 2009). The persons suffering from psychopathy live a predatory life where the view people in terms of how they can be used. ...

Antisocial Personality Disorder: Case Study

Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a type of condition that corrupts an individual mind, emotions, thoughts and behavior. The affected person develops behaviors destructive and harmful to others and generally poses as a danger to society. The individuals tend to have long histories of violating peoples’ rights; they are always aggressive, show no remorse and usually do not know the distinction between truths and lie (Barlow and Durand, 2009).

Frances and Ross (2001) cite that ASPD is meant to describe a pattern of behavior beginning in early life that would have warranted a pure diagnosis of conduct disorder. The most common reason ...