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Treatment of Antisocial personality disorder

by — Last updated: 2023-03-17 in Men's Health

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Antisocial personality disorder is a specific psychiatric disorder characterized by antisocial and impulsive behaviors. This is a pathological disorder which means that modern psychiatry defines no potential benefits of positive antisocial behavior.

 

Treatment Goals

Experts are saying that the treatment for all individuals with personality disorders should include:

  • preventing further deterioration,
  • establishing or regaining an adaptive equilibrium,
  • alleviating symptoms,
  • restoring lost skills,
  • fostering improved adaptive capacity

 
Another treatment goal is to assist family members and significant others to set limits. 

Counseling and Psychotherapy

The effective treatment of antisocial behavior and personality is limited but it is proven that group psychotherapy can be helpful.
The main goal of the psychotherapy is for the patient to develop a sense of trust. Only then the individual psychotherapy or cognitive behavioral therapy can be beneficial. It is likely, that intensive, psychoanalytic approaches are inappropriate for this population.

Pharmacotherapy

There is no research that supports the use of medications for direct treatment of antisocial personality disorder. It is proven that medications should only be utilized to treat clear, acute and serious diagnoses.

Self-Help

There are several self-help methods for the treatment of this disorder. Unfortunately they are often overlooked by the medical profession. Group therapy could be the key because individuals feel more at ease while discussing their problems in front of their peers.

Prognosis

The prognosis is not very good mostly because this disorder is characterized by a failure to conform to society's norms. People with this disorder are often incarcerated because of criminal behavior. A lack of insight into the disorder is also very common. People with antisocial personality disorder rarely seek treatment and rarely realize that they have a problem in the first place.