Assignment Week: 4 Case description: The case study is about a young man who seemed to be a very bright and intelligent person and was studying electrical engineering. His mom thought he needed a mental health professional’s consultation. His complaints were being extremely unsocial. He was against the idea of consulting a psychiatrist. He had literally no friends or did not want to get married. He was living in his own world of online games, where with every there was a feeling ofexploring something new and innovative. According to his mother’s statement he was not taking care of him well. He did not like his father who used to yell at him when he was young. He had very strong feelings about his dad and sister. It seemed he was lacking the …show more content…
I am not sure whether this client had consulted a mental health professionals or not. The analysis of personality disorders may be among the most contentious and challenging. Studies shown that one of the disputes surrounding personality disorders might be an unavailability of an obvious criteria for diagnosis. Due to this, psychologists might need to take more time in understanding the client, and his or her signs and symptoms, before reaching to a final diagnosis of personality disorder. With a vigilant method and belief on the DSM, psychologists might have more information to make a precise diagnosis of personality disorders. An explanation of your rationale for assigning the diagnosis on the basis of the DSM: According to Paris, antisocial personality disorder is characterized by manipulativeness, deceitfulness, callousness, and hostility as well as by dis-inhibition (Paris, 2013). Psychopathy, is a term used by Cleckley (1964) is a different concept and its research is linked with a standard and widely applied clinical rating scale, the Psychopathy Check List (PCL) Paris, 2013). The other terms used for this disorders are sociopathy, or dissocial personality disorders (APA,