It is simply a matter of using the color coded correlation charts to locate the appropriate Personality Disorders and matching them to the corresponding role playing scripts, which for Casey includes, in rank order: Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders. No interpretation or analysis of the graphics and charts is required.
The good cop bad cop role playing scripts are essentially what-to-do and what-not-to-do interpersonal guidelines based on the subjects personality characteristics. Generally, there should be one outstanding good cop, but there may be one composite bad cop or several bad cops. Of course, hostage negotiators would generally want to follow the good cop guidelines and to specifically avoid relating as a bad cop.
1. KEEP IT SAFE
2. KEEP IT LEGAL
3. PROVIDE PROTECTIVE AND SUPPORTIVE STRUCTURE ACCORDING TO POLICY AND PROCEDURE
301.50 Histrionic Personality Disorder
Paraphrased notes from DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2000)
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking ... five or more of the following:
...is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
...interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
...displays rapidly shifting an shallow expression of emotions
...consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
...has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
...shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
...is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
...considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
GOOD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Explore feelings and reasons for current emotional state
-Give them lots of attention
-Give them center stage
-Expect them to flirt
-Be a strong authority figure
-Show protective concern
-Do not expect much depth
BAD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Interrupt by asking for explanations, details, examples ...
-Actively compete for center stage ... restrict acting-out
-Minimize the importance of feelings
-Make others involved more important
301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Paraphrased notes from DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2000):
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy ... five or more of the following:
...has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, ...expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
...is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
...believes s/he is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
...requires excessive admiration
...has a high sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
...is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
...lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
...is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
...shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
GOOD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Show respect, admiration, and be easily impressed
-Understand their special abilities and attributes
-Present yourself as important and having connections
BAD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Do not cater to in any way
-Relate to with indifference
-Comment on their negative characteristics
-Belittle their achievements
-Portray them as ordinary, common, and dull
301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder:
Paraphrased notes from DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2000):
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity ... five or more of the following:
...frantic efforts (other than those in item 5) to avoid real or imagined abandonment
...a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
...identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
...impulsivity in at least two areas (other than those in item 5) that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).
...recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilation.
...affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
GOOD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Be engaging, but with them
-Join their point of view
-Let them reinforce you
-Indicate care and concern for their well-being. Set limits.
-At hints of self-injury, set the limits according to policy and then be the one to rescue within policy guidelines
BAD Cop Interpersonal Guidelines:
-Be aware of their fear of abandonment ... being left alone ... having no one to care
-Tell them to grow up, get a life
-Keep the focus in the present and on their behavior, their choices, their responsibilities
My personal opinions based on public information,
Russell
