Iceman Confessions: A Social History
This paper is a social history profile of Richard Kuklinski, a convicted mafia hitman. It examines his family, educational, and legal history in order to determine whether he suffers from a mental illness. The paper concludes with a determination that Kuklinski may have anti-social personality disorder, and with a non-optimistic treatment plan based on low success rates for treatment in psychopaths.
Research Paper
Undergraduate
Working for a Community Mental Health Agency
Although Burke, Loeber, and Birmaher (2002) are pessimistic regarding the current state of efficacious interventions for CD and recommend restructuring of diagnostic criteria to capture adequate subtypes and indicators, clarification of the neurological underpinnings of the disorder, and editing of the models used to explain DBD (ibid) in order to arrive at more certain conclusions, their opinion that a synthesis of modalities may be helpful support the conclusions of Kumpfer and Alvorado (2003) and Brestan and Eyebarg (1998). It is interesting also that conclude that:
If any single risk domain is to be singled out, aspects of parenting convey risks (including parenting
behavior, psychopathology, and genetic contributions) and provide a useful focus for intervention. (1288)
All authors, therefore, assert the value of family-orientated interventions and research unanimously shows this to be the most important component of addressing CD.