Development of Personality Disorders Due to Childhood Experiences

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Development of Personality Disorders Due to Childhood Experiences Introduction I have decided to research the development of antisocial personality disorders due to the quality of early childhood care and early childhood experiences. Antisocial personality disorder is described generally as disregard for others. Diagnosing ASPD involves features such as delinquency, physical assaults, deceitfulness and lying, impulsivity, and irresponsibility. This topic appealed to me because my step sister goes to see a therapist and they have reason to believe that she may have an antisocial or borderline personality disorder. While I won’t divulge, she has had many traumatic childhood experiences and had quite the rough upbringing with her parents. This led me to be interested in this article and to find out more about the connections between the two phenomena. Summary The development environment has been theoretically proposed to be relevant to the etiology of ASPD. (Shi and Bureau, 2012, p.54) While many other studies have been carried out to find relationships between antisocial behavior and delinquency, very few have attempted to find the relationship between the caregiving environment and antisocial behavior. Three other relevant studies have been conducted; establishing a connection between developmental processes and early aggression, conduct disorder, and young adolescent to adolescent delinquency. Maltreatment in childhood has also been associated repeatedly with antisocial behavior. (Shi and Bureau, 2012, p. 55) The only issue most psychologists have been facing is simply that antisocial behaviors have only been measured with no diagnostic information so far. While some studies have shown that maltreatment in early life is ... ... middle of paper ... ... was focusing on single mothers, but I think it would have been interesting and would have been very helpful to see what the issues were had a father been involved and the child was in an environment that both of his or her parents were in. I hope that these psychologists conduct more experiments covering things that they couldn’t in the first one, and overall this study was incredible. I enjoyed reading the article and becoming more knowledgeable on the topic! References Hockenbury, Don H. and Hockenbury, Sandra E. (2014). Discovering psychology. Fifth Edition. New York, NY. Worth Publishers. Shi, Zhenyu and Bureau, Jean-Francois (2012). Childhood Maltreatment and Prospectively Observed Quality of Early Care as Predictors of Antisocial Personality Disorder Features Michigan Association for Mental Health

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