Antisocial Personality Disorder - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children]

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Training with Aggressive Children (Petermann & Petermann, 2008) was integrated into the setting of a child welfare service. This study examined, if mental health care of aggressive children in child welfare settings can be improved, ... Read more...

Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence.

30 Aug 2009 Electrodermal response modulation (ERM) reflects the reduction in skin conductance response to an aversive stimulus that is temporally predictable relative to when it is unpredictable. Poor ERM is associated with substance dependence (SD). It was ... Read more...

Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge.

30 Jul 2009 This study examined an ecological perspective on the development of antisocial behavior during adolescence, examining direct, additive, and interactive effects of child and both parenting and community factors in relation to youth problem behavior. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Antisocial Personality Disorder - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children] 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Attention moderates the processing of inhibitory information in primary psychopathy. 30 Jul 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• Emotion dysregulation in the intergenerational transmission of romantic relationship conflict. 30 Jul 2009
• Characteristics of psychopathy in adolescent nonsmokers and smokers: Relations to delay discounting and self reported impulsivity. 30 Jul 2009
• Genetic risk for conduct disorder symptom subtypes in an ADHD sample: specificity to aggressive symptoms. 29 Jun 2009
• The role of harsh discipline in explaining sex differences in conduct disorder: a study of opposite-sex twin pairs. 29 Jun 2009
• Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in the workplace. 29 Jun 2009
• Aggressive versus nonaggressive antisocial behavior: distinctive etiological moderation by age. 29 Jun 2009
• Aggressive behavior between siblings and the development of externalizing problems: evidence from a genetically sensitive study. 29 Jun 2009
• School performance and genetic and environmental variance in antisocial behavior at the transition from adolescence to adulthood. 29 Jun 2009
• The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behavior. 29 Jun 2009
• The relationship between serotonin receptor 1B polymorphisms A-161T and alcohol dependence. 8 Jun 2009
• Diagnosing an American Psycho. 30 May 2009
• Killer Queens: screen representations of the gay psychopath. 30 May 2009
• Portrayal of psychopathy in the movies. 30 May 2009
• Mediators of change for multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offenders. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D000987

Alternative terms: Antisocial Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Antisocial; Antisocial Personality Disorders; Disorder, Antisocial Personality; Disorders, Antisocial Personality; Personality Disorders, Antisocial; Sociopathic Personality; Personalities, Sociopathic; Personality, Sociopathic; Sociopathic Personalities; Psychopathic Personality; Personalities, Psychopathic; Personality, Psychopathic; Psychopathic Personalities; Antisocial Personality; Antisocial Personalities; Personalities, Antisocial; Personality, Antisocial; Dyssocial Behavior; Behavior, Dyssocial; Behaviors, Dyssocial; Dyssocial Behaviors;

Related Mesh Headings: Conduct Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675.050;

Online Note: use ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER to search ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80 & SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1966-75

History Note: 81; was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80, was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY see under SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1969-75; SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY was heading 1963-75