Cognitive therapy can be used to treat antisocial personality disorder. It aims to change distorted thoughts and beliefs that cause problematic behaviors by getting patients to evaluate situations differently. Therapists challenge beliefs, encourage perspective-taking, and teach appropriate behaviors. The goal is for patients to understand how their thinking leads to problems and see themselves accurately rather than how their disorder views them. Changing core schemas about re-offending can help patients develop prosocial goals through cognitive restructuring.
All you need to know in order to tell if someone is antisocial or not
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This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content, please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: laura.astorian@cobbk12.org
All you need to know in order to tell if someone is antisocial or not
This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content, please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: laura.astorian@cobbk12.org
This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content, please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: laura.astorian@cobbk12.org
Antisocial personality disorder is a mental condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.
Antisocial personality disorder is a mental condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.
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learning objectives 16 16.1 Who seeks therapy and what are the goals of therapy? 16.2 How is the success of psychotherapy measured? 16.3 What are some of the factors that must be considered to provide optimal treatment? 16.4 What psychological approaches are used to treat abnormal behavior? 16.5 What roles do social values and culture play in psychotherapy? 16.6 What biological approaches to treating abnormal behavior are available? Most of us have experienced a time or situation when we were dramatically helped by talking things over with a relative or friend. Most therapists, like all good listeners, rely on receptiveness, warmth, and empathy and take a nonjudgmental approach to the problems their clients present. But there is more to therapy than just giving someone an opportunity to talk. Therapists also introduce into the relationship psychological interventions that are designed to promote new understandings, behaviors, or both on the client’s part. The fact that these interventions are deliberately planned and systematically guided by certain theoretical preconceptions is what distinguishes professional therapy from more informal helping relationships. An Overview of Treatment The belief that people with psychological problems can change—can learn more adaptive ways of perceiving, evaluating, and behaving—is the conviction underlying all psychotherapy. Achieving these changes is by no means easy. Sometimes a person’s view of the world and her or his self-concept are distorted because of pathological early relationships that have been reinforced by years of negative life experiences. In other instances, environmental factors such as an unsatisfying job, an unhappy relationship, or financial stresses must be the focus of attention in addition to psychotherapy. Because change can be hard, people sometimes find it easier to bear their present problems than to challenge themselves to chart a different life course. Therapy also takes time. Even a highly skilled and experienced therapist cannot undo a person’s entire past history and, within a short time, prepare him or her to cope adequately with difficult life situations. Therapy offers no magical transformations. Nevertheless, it holds promise even for the most severe mental disorders. Moreover, contrary to common opinion, psychotherapy can be less expensive in the long run than alternative modes of intervention (Dobson et al., 2008; Gabbard et al., 1997). Numerous therapeutic approaches exist, ranging from psychoanalysis to Zen meditation. However, the era of managed care has prompted new and increasingly stringent demands that the efficacy of treatments be empirically demonstrated. This chapter will explore some of the most widely accepted psychological and biological treatment approaches in use today. Although we recognize that different groups of mental health professionals often have their own preferences with respect to the use of the terms client and patient, in this chapter we use ...
2. Antisocial Antisocial personality disorder (which may sometimes be referred to as a sociopathic personality) is a disorder in which individuals show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others
3. Symptoms Individuals with this disturbance show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others. Can appear intelligent and likable but turn out to be manipulative and deceptive. They lack guilt or anxiety about their wrongdoing When people with this disorder behave in a way that injures someone else, they understand intellectually that they have caused harm but feel no remorse.
4. Demographics This disorder usually begins in childhood or as a teen and continues into their adult lives. This disorder affects more males (3 percent) then women (1 percent) in the general population Usually by the age of 15 they are able to tell if a person has this disorder, but they are not able to diagnose them until they are 18 years old.
8. People coming from lower socioeconomic groupsThey are not exactly able to pinpoint the specific causes of this disorder, and they say that it is likely some combination of factors are the responsible.
10. The Therapy Aim- Cognitive Approach Cognitive therapy teaches us how to think in more adaptive ways by changing their misinterpretations about the world and themselves. Cognitive therapy is veryconfrontational and challenging in this disorder because the patient may try to manipulate the therapist. Therapists try to encourage gathering information on the patients own They use cognitive appraisal: clients are asked to evaluate situations, themselves and others in terms of their memories, values, beliefs, thoughts and expectations. They hope this will lead them to abandon their line of thinking and find a more realistic one.
11. Procedures Short term therapy, max of twenty sessions The sessions are problem focused Therapist sometimes start by teaching the theories of the therapy to the patient They then actively participate while the patient continues therapy acting like a teacher, coach and partner
12. Cognitive Theory The cognitive therapy’s major goal is to help the patient understand how he creates his own problems and how his distorted perceptions prevent him from seeing himself the way others view him This is because cognitive therapists believe that we are our thoughts. The “idealized self is made up of beliefs about how we should feel, think, or act”.
13. Cognitive Theory The therapist can make the patient recover through changing the patients’ schema about situations in which they are likely to re-offend. This can be realized by changing more fundamental components of a patient’s belief system, such that they develop a socially acceptable life goal, or by focusing on specific situations and teaching acceptable behavior context.
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