Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder is a condition that affects a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviour in a way that is disruptive to, and may be harmful to, other people. People with ASPD exhibit traits of impulsivity, anger and associated behaviours including irresponsible, recklessness and deceitfulness. They have often grown up in fractured families in which parental conflict is typical and parenting is harsh and inconsistent. Many people with antisocial personality disorder have a criminal conviction and are imprisoned or die prematurely as a result of reckless behaviour.

The advice in the NICE guideline covers:

• The care, treatment and support that people with antisocial personality disorder and their families or carers should be offered
• The care and treatment that children with conduct problems and their families or carers should be offered.

It does not specifically look at treatments not normally available in the NHS or prison health services.

CG77 Antisocial personality disorder: NICE guideline (273.77 KB)

borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder is a condition that affects a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Symptoms include having emotions that are up and down, with feelings of emptiness and often anger, difficulty in making and maintaining relationships, having an unstable sense of identity and harming yourself or thinking about harming yourself (for example, cutting yourself or overdosing). People with borderline personality disorder come from many different backgrounds, but most will have suffered some kind of trauma or neglect as children.

This guideline covers the care, treatment and support that people with borderline personality disorder should be offered.

CG78 Borderline personality disorder (BPD): NICE guideline (270.06 KB)