A nursing instructor is preparing an education plan about antisocial personality disorder for a class of nursing students. Which of the following would the nurse include as a term often used to describe the behaviors associated with this condition? Select
A) Psychopath
B) Manipulator
C) Criminality
D) Sociopath
E) Psychotic
Ans: A, D
The terms psychopath and sociopath are often used to describe the behaviors of antisocial personality disorder. Although individuals with this disorder are self-serving, exploitive, and engage in acts that are grounds for arrest, the terms manipulator and criminality are not commonly used. Psychotic refers to behaviors in which there are disturbed thought processes.
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