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Ted Bundy

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Description of the patient

In my case, I have chosen Ted Bundy as a reference for my healthcare project. Ted Bundy became infamous in the 1970s when he was accused of various necrophilia, rape, and murder cases. In 1989 he was executed in Florida's electric chair, and since then, many authors have used his case to write books that have been used to advise people to escape crime, jail terms, and imprisonments across the globe. Although Ted grew up in a wealthy family and attained a degree in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1972, he used all his life privileges to engage in crime.

Throughout the 1970s, Ted confessed to having killed more than thirty-six people, most of whom were women across all the states In America (Katherine Ramsland, 2013). However, investigative experts believe that the final tally could have supersedes a hundred people. When he was on trial Hervey Cleckley, the father of psychopathy, was assigned to evaluate Ted's mental health. Hervey diagnosed Ted as a psychopath, a personality trait that is associated with Antisocial Personal Disorder.

Substance abuse or violence

Individuals that suffer from psychopathy are ruthless, manipulative, charm and social predators. They have no feeling and consciousness for others. Ted's case is one of the exciting crime stories that are studied across the globe. He was highly articulate and charming. People usually wonder why such a person could escape criminal recording while being responsible for dozens of murder cases. Before Ted engaged with the addition of murdering and stalking women, he was already a marijuana addict. Many drug addicts engage in crime to get the resources to purchase drugs. Ted was also involved in the use and the abuse of pornographic materials, which have involved many fantasies that could have played a big role in forcing Ted to commit more crimes. Drug addiction leads to rush or high a drive that encourages murders to continue committing their crimes.

Attempt intervention

Ted had a mental disorder, and the effective preventive measures target management and monitoring of determinants that facilitate the predisposing onset of the mental disorders and causal influences. The main risk factor to the mental disorders is the increased chances of onset greater longer and severity durations of the mental health disorder. The preventive measure aims at reducing the resistance of disorders and risk factors. Interventions modify various environmental hazards that force a criminal who has been committing crimes and force an individual to engage in activities with a maladaptive outcome.

Most of the mental health disorders are related to family and individual-related risk. The interventions are used to modify interpersonal, behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and biological factors. The main intervention that was successful in monitoring Ted's behavior is emotional monitoring. Psychological experts such as Darrel Turner and Hervey Cleckley provided a recommendation that could assist Ted in reducing the negative effect of marijuana. Additionally, the collaboration of psychologies from the University of Kentucky provided Ted medication after they diagnosed and ascertained Ted was suffering from Narcissistic Personal Disorder. However, the health care systems could not incorporate Ted's family in managing his conditions.

Personal thoughts

The fact that Ted was born from a well-off family and where his parents less monitored him was a contributing factor to Ted's engagement to drug abuse, exposure to pornography, and finally becoming a series murderer. Ted was born in Burlington on 24th November and his mother’s secret shame (Keppel, 2010). Ted was born as an illegitimate child, and this aspect humiliated the mother who took Ted to be raised by his grandparent as an adopted child. Eleanor, Ted's mother, was later married the Johnnie, the stepfather. Lack of parental care made Ted engage in unlawful activities that might cause him to be a series murderer. After Ted graduated from the university, he married a woman from California who was also from a wealthy family. Therefore, Ted was having the privileges of access to influence, class, and money. However, he was suffering from different psychological challenges from a poor upbringing and lack of parental love.

Cognitive concerns and possible interventions

Individuals raised through adoptions with the care of their biological parents' intervention have high changes in dropping out of schools, engaging in drug abuse, and exhibiting mental health disorders. Children whose parents neglect them are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. There are various interventions to support individuals suffering from mental health disorders. First, the family members must collaborate with the professional psychologies and counselor to assist the patients.

The second intervention is that patients can be exposed to special treatment programs such as rehabilitation. If the patient is unwilling to take the necessary medications, doctors and counselors should convince the patients until they accept medications. The spouse should also ensure that they change everyday living patterns, ensure recovery support, therapist support, and relapse when it occurs.

Three priority diagnoses, evaluation, and interventions

The priority diagnoses involved Antisocial Personal Disorder, where a group of seventy-three psychologists from the University of Kentucky examine Ted's brain and ascertain he was suffering from (ASPD). The second priority of diagnoses was psychopathy which was evaluated and ascertained by Hervey Cleckley. The last diagnosis was the test for Narcissistic Personal Disorder, which a group of seventy-three psychologists also did. Based on the experts' advice, Ted needed to be monitored by psychologists through the change of the environmental hazards in the rehabilitation centers in the United States.

Patient’s evaluation

Ted could have been a series murderer and rapist due to multiple disorders he was suffering from since he was young. In the paper, it is clear the Ted lacked parental support and love, which made him acquire psychopathy. People suffering from psychopathy have negative behavioral characteristics that may violate the rule of law, social and cultural norms. Other characteristics may include lack of guilt and empathy, deceitfulness, manipulative, and egocentricity. Suppose the healthcare personnel and the parents could have realized that Ted had various psychological disorders. In that case, they could have put multiple measures to reform Ted's character and probability rescue been a series murderer and rapist. Additionally, Narcissistic Personal Disorder is also a mental disorder that enabled Ted to acquire an inflated sense of his own with little or no concern for other people welfare. Multiple mental disorders were the main reason why Ted was a series murderer and rapist.

Mental health resources that can be used with the patient or community

Various resources can be used to monitor mental disorders for individuals' patients and the whole community. Individuals can access healthcare personnel such as psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers through funds in the Medicare policy. People can also access the rehabilitation services that are all over the United States. Politicians and also be involved and fund educational based programs that enlighten the public on the preventive and intervention measures to drug abuse. Through the resource, a community can prevent the adverse effect of drug abuse by monitoring and preventing drug abuse in society.

The community can also establish a counseling and guidance department under the state and federal government to monitor children's behavior and offer guidance to prevent the severe effect of psychological disorders that can lead to serious crimes. The community can also utilize human resources such as the availability of psychiatric nurses that are available. The resources from Medicare and Medicaid can be used to reduce the excessive out-of-pocket resources required to treat a psychological disorder.

References

Katherine Ramsland PhD, C. V. (2013). THE MANY SIDES OF TED BUNDY. Forensic Examiner, 22(3), 18.

Keppel, R. (2010). The riverman: Ted Bundy and I hunt for the Green River killer. Simon and Schuster.

Meloy, J. R., & Yakeley, A. J. (2011). Antisocial personality disorder. A. A, 301(2).