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Vaughn has violent outbursts that scare his coworkers.He has even destroyed property and been arrested for assault.His outbursts are disproportionate to the amount of frustration the incident should generate and has now led to him being fired as well as a no contact order being placed on him from his girlfriend.He may well meet the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for:

A) conduct disorder.
B) oppositional defiant disorder.
C) antisocial personality disorder.
D) intermittent explosive disorder.

Diagnostic Criteria

Diagnostic Criteria are standardized guidelines used in mental health and medicine to identify and classify diseases and disorders.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Disorder characterized by (a) several episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property, (b) a degree of aggressiveness grossly out of proportion to the situation, and (c) symptoms not better explained by another mental disorder (such as antisocial personality disorder), the effects of substances, or a medical condition (e.g., a head trauma).

Assault

An act of causing physical harm to someone or attempting or threatening to do so.

  • Outline the attributes and diagnostic guidelines for antisocial personality disorder.
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