PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Superficial Charm, Psychopathy
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Apd starts at least in adolescent, a personality disorder and primarily associated with criminal behaviour. Psychopaths can perform crimes from many different areas such as robbery, drug possession, sexual offence, and fraud (criminal versatility). While most criminals just stick with only one area. Information you get from psychopaths is not reliable, so bulk of information has to be obtained from a file review, juvenile records, physician records, or close people also available. Not phased when caught in a lie, show complete lack of concern in truth. Acknowledge it and come up with an excuse. From 20 items scored 0 if not applies to individual at all. Scored a 2 if highly representative of individual over time. Possible to get a maximum score of 40 on these 20 items. Some individuals not a zero, and not a 2, but there intermittently, so those items for that individual scored a 1.
