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Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Q You and a friend are watching a TV crime show together, and one of the characters is a hard criminal with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Your friend turns to you, as a psychology student, and asks, “What causes someone to turn out that way?” A) Give your best answer to your friend’s question, being sure to use any and all research at your disposal. B) In your opinion, which of the factors that you discussed in Part A were primarily responsible for Bill’s ASPD? (Be sure to cite specific details from the case to support your position.) According to the authors of your case study book, prevention, rather than treatment, may offer the most promise for dealing with ASPD. After giving more thought to Bill’s life history, identify and discuss two separate points or occasions at which, in your opinion, people in Bill’s life could have made headway toward preventing the development and/or increase in the severity of Bill’s ASPD. (Hint: There is no one “right answer” to this question. What I’d like you to do here is to think critically about Bill’s case, and use your imagination to stage interventions, early on, that in your opinion could have helped.)

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A) The antisocial personality is personality that does not possess much conscience. These people may do a mistake or may intentionally do wrong it does not matter for them because they do not have any conscience. Arrogance of some sort always prevails in behaviour. The behaviour may contain violence and also may contain aspects of violation where the person hurts other individual’s rights (Blackburn, 1992).