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Antisocial Personality Disorder Learning Center
Symptoms could include:
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Criminal Behavior
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Absence of Guilt
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Disregards The Safety of Self And Others
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Victimizing Others
- Bullying
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Compulsive Lying
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Theft
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Fighting
- Acting Out
- Problem Behavior
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Truancy
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Defiance
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Vandalism
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Risk-Taking Behavior
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Academic Underachievement
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Cruel Behavior
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Aggressive Outburst
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Behavioral Problems at School
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Breaks the law repeatedly; Lies, steals, and fights often; Disregards the safety of self and others; Does not show any guilt;
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The central characteristic of antisocial personality disorder is an extreme disregard for the rights of other people. Individuals with APD lie and cheat to gain money or power. Their disregard for authority often leads to arrest and imprisonment. ...
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Factors that contribute to a particular child's antisocial behavior vary, but they usually include some form of family problems (e.g., marital discord, harsh or inconsistent disciplinary practices or actual child abuse , frequent changes in primar...
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An aggressive child who repeatedly victimizes a less powerful child with physical and/or emotional abuse. Bullying usually involves an older or larger child (or several children) victimizing a single child who is incapable of defending himself or ...
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Bullies are aggressive children who repeatedly physically or emotionally abuse, torment, or victimize smaller, weaker, or younger children.
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Stealing is taking another person's property without permission.
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Acting out is defined as the release of out-of-control aggressive or sexual impulses in order to gain relief from tension or anxiety . Such impulses often result in antisocial or delinquent behaviors. The term is also sometimes used in regard to a...
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A defense mechanism whereby an individual expresses feelings through behavior rather than word. The term "acting out" was first coined to describe the behavior exhibited by a patient in expressing inner feelings about his or her psychoanalyst in a...
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Problem behavior is often associated with adolescence but may manifest in the very young or in adults. Delinquency, drug use, academic failure, risky sexual behavior, violence, property damage, vandalism and disregard of the rights of others are all problem behaviors.
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Failure to attend school regularly without parents' approval. In the 1990s, truancy has become a serious problem in many communities worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice reports that 80% of those in prison were at one time truants. The percen...
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Truancy is unapproved absence from school, usually without a parent's knowledge.
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Aggressive behavior is reactionary and impulsive behavior that often results in breaking household rules or the law; aggressive behavior is violent and unpredictable.
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