Treatment
Antisocial Behavior is hard to treat, but therapy has been shown to be effective in people with this behavior. Those who receive therapy are able to work on the way that they think which leads them to perform certain behaviors. This decreases their engagement in the behavior or repeating the behaviors. Antisocial behaviors are difficult to treat. People with this disorder may not even want treatment or think they need treatment. Since antisocial behaviors are a way of being, not a condition, affected people are likely to need close, long-term care and follow-up. Therapy is the main way to treat this behavior rather than medications.
Psychotherapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-helps to uncover the person's negative and destructive behaviors and to learn new positive ones. Helpful to possibly change the way a person acts towards others and in society.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy-attempts to uncover the unconscious motives and aggression in a person. This helps to get at the root of the reason for the disruptive behaviors.
Hospitalization- In some cases, antisocial symptoms and behaviors sever enough to require hospitalization. Hospitalization may be needed for someone who acts in self-harming behaviors or is in danger of also harming others. Hospitalization options include 24-hour inpatient care, partial or day hospitalization, or residential treatment, which offers a supportive place to live.
Medication- helps to treat comorbid disorders in a person. Relieves depression or anxiety a anti-social person. There is no medicine that treats anti-social behavior itself.
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