Meaning and Consequences of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy

Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy is defined in agreement to views and studies carried out by different institutions and behavior specialists who all draw to the same deduction and it can best be defined as follows.

Antisocial personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of disregard for, violation of the rights of others.

The child feels no remorse if he has does something wrong, he does not show feelings or emotions, and is seldom helpful if someone is hurt. The lack of guilt and empathy depicted captures the emotional impairment of psychopathic individual.

Antisocial personality disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which a person engages, exploits, or violates the rights of others.

Sociobiology argues that psychopathy is not so much a psychiatric disorder as an expression of a particular genetically grounded reproductive strategy. Socio-biologists declare that one of our main aim in life is to reproduce, in so doing passing on our genes to the next generation. One reproductive approach is to have only a few children and to raise them carefully, ensuring that they have a good chance of survival.

A different strategy is to have so many children that some are destined to survive, even if they are neglected or abandoned and Psychopath reproduce as often as possible and waste little energy in worrying about the welfare of their offspring. In this way, they propagate their genes with little or no personal investment. Retrieved from (http://www.ptypes.com/antisocialpd.html)

Another theory defines anti-social personality disorder as an anomaly in the nervous system development and abnormal nervous system development including learning disorders, insistent bedwetting and ...

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...ts learn to continually monitor their own behavior. This motivates children to do behave desirably thus discouraging and preventing misconduct and anti-personality disorders

Differential attention can be used either as classroom management technique or intervention for managing the disruptive classroom behavior of individual children.

The teacher is always attending much more frequently to the child with conduct following disorderly behavior than following wanted classroom behavior. Differential attention is designed to focus more on the children who behave well in the classroom rather than the disorderly attention seeking problematic children, with the focus put on good behaviors, children with misdemeanors are motivated to step into line by behaving desirably so as to get the teachers attention thus treating and preventing the anti-social personality disorders.