1. Antisocial Personality Disorder

Research has shown that many, if not most, individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder were seriously and repeatedly abused when they were children. Although they may have been abused sexually, most often they were abused physically in the form of beatings and other violence, as well as emotionally abused in the form of ridicule and humiliation. Typically, the abuser was a parent or guardian who had antisocial personality disorder.

Read the section of your book on Antisocial Personality Disorder and review its diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5. For each of the seven criteria listed under Criterion A for Antisocial Personality Disorder, discuss how that particular criterion might have resulted from a history of being abused as a child. (Do not define what the criterion means but rather tie it back to a history of physical and/or sexual abuse.) Then, substantiate your opinion with an academic reference (so to provide empirical support for your theory). Consider each criterion, one at a time and be sure to provide an academic reference for each of the seven discussions.

2. Borderline Personality Disorder

Research has found that the majority of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder experienced abandonment or severe neglect as children. Because of this, Borderline Personality Disorder is sometimes referred to as the “abandonment syndrome.”

Read the section of your book on Borderline Personality Disorder and review its diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5. For each of the nine criteria listed under Criterion A for Borderline Personality Disorder, discuss how that particular criterion might have resulted from a history of being abandoned or severely neglected as a child. (Do not define the criterion but rather tie it back to a history of abandonment or severe neglect.) Then, substantiate your opinion with an academic reference (so to provide empirical support for your theory). Consider each criterion, one at a time and be sure to provide an academic reference for each of the nine discussions.

3. Avoidant Personality Disorder

Research has demonstrated that many, if not most, individuals with Avoidant Personality Disorder were humiliated and ridiculed as children from family members and/or peers. The humiliation may have occurred infrequently or frequently.

Read the section of your book on Avoidant Personality Disorder and review its diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5. . For each of the seven criteria listed under Criterion A for Avoidant Personality Disorder, discuss how that particular criterion might have resulted from a history of being humiliated or ridiculed as a child. Then, substantiate your opinion with an academic reference (so to provide empirical support for your theory).