A short news article (found here) tells that Jerry Sandusky is to be evaluated for a personality disorder today by a prosecution psychologist. Jerry is on trial for some 50 counts of child sexual abuse. The article says that the defense team plans to argue that Jerry has Histrionic Personality Disorder and that explains his verbal and written behavior with the boys who are accusing him of abuse–rather than see those same behaviors as attempts to groom the boys.
Just how will a psychologist go about determining the presence of HPD? In a non-forensic setting, a psychologist would attempt to determine the presence of a personality disorder by gathering several kinds of data...read more
http://wisecounsel.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/psychology-and-the-sandusky-trial-assessing-histrionic-personality-disorder/
Just how will a psychologist go about determining the presence of HPD? In a non-forensic setting, a psychologist would attempt to determine the presence of a personality disorder by gathering several kinds of data...read more
http://wisecounsel.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/psychology-and-the-sandusky-trial-assessing-histrionic-personality-disorder/
