Conduct disorder

To be classified as serial killer there has to be three important considerations. “Other suggestions are that there must be a motivation, that this motivation tends to be sexual, that the killer will fantasize about the murder and finally, that the killing is premeditated. To eliminate other types of killings like terrorism or assassinations, the murder itself must be the primary motivator. Once serial murder is adequately defined, a deeper look can be taken into the life of the murderer”…

My sister, Emily had 5th grade classmate/ friend who was born with sociopathic behavior. She had been through a lot her dad was an alcoholic, who would beat her up when he was drunk. Her mom tried to be there for her but it was difficult. It was difficult for the mom to deal with her daughter fighting this illness and a crazy husband who was abusive to the family. The child would go to school and not talk to many people. At lunch she would avoid talking to people she was very anti-social. This…

“Conscience- an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.” Conscience- a vital component of the human personality. Conscience- what most people take for granted. A psychopath, also called a sociopath, suffers from a flaw that does not come from a mental illness but from a flaw in characteristics. This flaw does not make them hallucinate as if they were psychotics, for they are in touch with reality. They understand what is right…

senses that a person has communicate with the amygdala, so a lot of emotional processes interact with it, and it also decides what motivates a person to act in certain ways. The amygdala in someone who has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, the amygdala has been found to be smaller and much less active. This also indicates that someone with ASPD may not even be able to recognize fear or pain in other people. This suggests that people with…

the guilt for what he was doing, also his possession of being able to act charming to others, major depressive disorder that he suffered from the death of his family, kleptomania pyromania characterized by difficulties in resting urges to engaged in behavior that is excessive and ultimately harmful to others. Some associated features for Hannibal 's antisocial and psychopathic disorder. His antisocial behavior like lying, killing, his ability to unnerve others, appears to psychopaths and his…

epidemic than most people realize. Just imagine the destruction people with this condition can cause (rape, murder, abuse, etc.). What makes this condition so intriguing is the lack of knowledge on the subject. Sociopathy is unlike any psychological disorder we have studied thus far. Because sociopaths have no guilt, emotional feelings, compassion, or empathy, they do not have a conscience (also known as the seventh sense). The absence of a conscience results in all of these problems that a…

Many people may think a psychopath and sociopath are the same thing; insane people with mental disorders that make them have no feeling or attachment toward another person, so they go around killing everyone. Well, that is not the true, for the most part. A psychopath is an individual with a psychopathic nature, which is in turn seen as someone with no moral quality and introverted behavior, also being incapable to love or establish true intimate relationships, very self-centered, fails to…

Definition Psychopathy is a severe mental illness or disorder, in which is characterized by some, not necessarily all, of the following features: manipulative, shallow emotions and poor impulsivity. Manipulative is when an individual is characterized by unscrupulous control of a situation or another individual. Shallow emotions lack of valuing qualities in a person that is hidden but can be perceived. Poor impulsivity when having no self-control over emotions or behavior. Causes There’s no…

to get help. At the hospital the nurses and doctors determines what is wrong with the patient and develop a plan to help them get better. There are many nursing theorists that help to justify things. A good nursing theorist associated with this disorder is Dorothy Johnson’s behavioral systems theory. In her theory she talked four different aspects that affected the behavioral system. These four aspects are nursing, the person, the environment and health. Nursing helps the person to achieve…

believe that the disorder is a neurological disorder that is present at birth or develops during early childhood, but some do disagree. The disorder has a prevalence of approximately 5-12% in children, 8.7% in adolescents, and 4% adults. From a genetic basis, it has been determined that ADHD has a heritability rate that ranges from 75-91%, and parents and siblings of a child with ADHD are 2 to 8 times more likely to have ADHD. No one gene has been identified as the cause for the disorder, and it…