@article{612,
  keywords = {psychopaths, Treatment, effectiveness, metaanlysis},
  author = {Cristina Esteban Martínez and Vicente Garrido Genovés and Julio Sánchez Meca},
  title = {When emotion is a problem: A meta-analytic study of the treatment effectiveness about people diagnosed as psychopaths},
  abstract = {This paper reviews the effectiveness of treatments applied to psychopaths, employing the technique of meta-analysis and trying to study which are the variables that can be responsable of the results obtained. With the selected studies, two meta-analysis were carried out: the meta-analysis "A" ( N= 34) reviews the effectiveness of the different types of treatments in the different groups of psychopath versus non-psychopath groups (i.e. other diagnostic categories); the meta-analysis "B" (N= 19) analyses the effectiveness of the treatments applied to psychopaths, before and after the intervention (pre-post design). The fact that most of the studies have not a control/comparison group (with the exception of four studies which, incidentally, showed also a positive effect size: 0.12), and that the analysis of recidivism is very poor, can not be an excuse for denying the necesssity of more treatment programmes with better research.},
  year = {1996},
  journal = {Ansiedad y Estrés},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  pages = {55-68},
  month = {07/1996},
  publisher = {Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés},
  issn = {1134-7937},
  isbn = {2174-0437},
}