Antisocial Personality Disorder Outline



Antisocial Personality Disorder Outline

• Mass murderers – do they meet the criteria for APD?

• Can we predict dangerousness?

• Early warnings in children include unhappiness, narcissism, self-centeredness, uncertainty, & an inability to form relationships.

• Common signals in childhood: prolonged bed-wetting, cruelty to animals, setting fires, strange, shy, sad, no friends, a loner, a boy.

• Incapable of remorse.

• Pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begs in childhood or early adolescence & continues into adulthood.

• Experts are divided on the causes of the disorder.

• R. D. Hare – brainwaives of psychopaths different – little to no activity at all in the front parts of the brain.

• Mcnaghten rules have existed in some form or another since 1843.

• McNaughten rule does not apply to APD.

• Historically called moral imbecility with the high grade feeblemindedness.

• Moral imbeciles were often cunning, manipulative, & highly intelligent.

• Correlational data: two types of familial risks – parental psychopathology & several aspects of parenting behavior.

• The role of depression?

• Frick et al – high rates of substance abuse in the parents of children with conduct disorders.

• Research supports the association is stronger between father & child.

• Behavioral manifestations of sociopathy seem to be different for men and women.

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