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Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder risk factors
• Antisocial Personality Disorder • Feb 19 07

Physiological

a. Genetics. The DSM-IV-TR reports that antisocial personality is more common among first-degree biological relatives of those with the disorder than among the general population (APA, 2000). Cadoret (1994) reports on…


 

Specific Treatment Approaches
• Antisocial Personality Disorder • Apr 10 06

Despite the absence of a body of controlled outcome data, certain treatment modalities are more effective than others in patients with antisocial personality disorder who are not severely psychopathic. The effectiveness of a modality…


 

The Clinician’s Reactions to the Patient
• Antisocial Personality Disorder • Apr 10 06

Lion, Symington, Strasburger, Meloy, and Gabbard explored the clinician’s response to the psychopathic or antisocial personality disorder patient.

Table 82-3 lists eight common countertransference reactions to…


 

Personality Characteristics and Treatment Prognosis
• Antisocial Personality Disorder • Apr 10 06

Anxiety and Attachment
Laboratory evidence has supported the clinical view that psychopathic criminals do not experience anxiety and worry to the degree that nonpsychopathic criminals do. Self-report measures of anxiety…


 

Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder • Apr 10 06

Antisocial Personality Disorder

     
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