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Antisocial personality disorder is one of the most difficult personality disorders to treat. People with this condition rarely seek treatment on their own.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 17, 2008
Antisocial personality disorder is highly unresponsive to any form of treatment, in part because persons with APD rarely seek treatment voluntarily. If they do seek help, it is usually in an attempt to find relief from depression or other forms of...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The most important goals of treating antisocial behavior are to measure and describe the individual child's or adolescent's actual problem behaviors and to effectively teach him or her the positive behaviors that should be adopted instead. In sev...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Antisocial personality disorder is highly unresponsive to any form of treatment. Although there are medications available that could quell some of the symptoms of the disorder, noncompliance or abuse of the drugs prevents their widespread use.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Pioneers in the development of cognitive behavior therapy include Albert Ellis(1929-), who developed rational-emotive therapy(RET) in the 1950s, and Aaron Beck(1921—), whose cognitive therapy has been widely.used for depression and anxiety. ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and"negative" emotions.(Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-product...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cognitive therapy is a psychosocial(both psychological and social) therapy that assumes that faulty thought patterns(called cognitive patterns) cause maladaptive behavior and emotional responses. The treatment focuses on changing thoughts in order...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Behavioral therapy can help ease panic disorder, whether in conjunction with medication or alone.
Source:StayWell
What's the difference between a can-do and a won't-try person? It's usually a matter of bravery.
Source:StayWell
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a method of verbal communication used to help a person find relief from emotional pain. It is based on the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Interpersonal therapy(IPT) is a short-term supportive psychotherapy that focuses on the connection between interactions between people and the development of a person''s psychiatric symptoms.Interpersonal therapy was initially developed to treat ad...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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