TY - JOUR
KW - psychopaths
KW - Treatment
KW - effectiveness
KW - metaanlysis
AU - Cristina Esteban Martínez
AU - Vicente Garrido Genovés
AU - Julio Sánchez Meca
AB - 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.
IS - 1
M3 - Journal article
N2 - 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.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 1996
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 55
EP - 68
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - When emotion is a problem: A meta-analytic study of the treatment effectiveness about people diagnosed as psychopaths
VL - 2
ER -