Are psychopaths untreatable?
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sociology
presentation
published 16/09/2008
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Psychopathy equals violence. Whatever rubric is used identifies a person with a greater likelihood of violence, often motivated by opportunism, sadism or material gain. Treatment responsivity and harm reduction as treatment success in high-risk or repetitive offenders seems overreaching. It would be ideal and even a magic bullet to be able to predict dangerousness with absolute certainty but, currently, theres no successful model for intervention and a diagnosis of psychopathy mostly means that treatment is unlikely to work.
Table of Contents
- Abstract.
- Introduction.
- The many distinguishing features of Psychopathy.
- The idea of relapse prevention.
- To examine the psychopath construct.
- Psychopathy as a socially devastating disorder.
- Professional override, the possibility that a clinician's judgment could be subjective or applied unevenly.
- Conclusion.
