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Cognitive Behavior Case Study: Tate Vs. Tate

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Violet pretends to agree, but then quickly tries to escape from Tate. In the super natural setting, Violet never gets to escape, and Tate finds a way to console Violet. After this the two are nearly inseparable until Violet finds out the truth about Tate raping her mother.
After all of the bad things that Tate has done, his problems are traced from childhood. One way to stop his deviant actions as a youth would be to implement family therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, whether his father was in the picture or not, it could have stopped some of Tate’s early on symptoms of plausible Conduct Disorder. There is a clear onset that lasts over the twelve year period, and Tate embodied many of the criteria. Tate was aggressive towards people, his aggression going as far as driving him to set a man on fire. Tate was physically cruel, and raped Ms. Harmon. While Conduct disorder symptoms can diminish with age, Tate’s only got worse and he later fell into the antisocial personality type.
Tate can be argued into the cluster B: Erratic-Dramatic cluster for antisocial personality type because, he’s very impulsive, he …show more content…

Because we aren’t given a history of Tate having other manic episodes, we would have to place him under the Bipolar two category because Tate has a clear history of major depressive disorder, a flight of ideas which is shown when his is discussing how to save everyone with the “noble war” of murdering people to save them. Tate also had clear agitation, when he had to plan to make Violet commit suicide, and she was trying not to follow along with his plan. He thought that his message of suicide would be a clear answer to their problems and the fact that she wouldn’t listen, and was being too picky about how she wanted to die made Tate borderline

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