Antisocial Personality Disorder

When is it time get help?

Like many other mental health and personality disorders, people with antisocial personality disorder don’t always see that they have a problem – they may believe the problem is with other people! If you find you possess the above symptoms and you have trouble interacting with people, maintaining relationships, and find yourself in trouble legally, its time to get assessed to see if you have antisocial personality disorder and to seek support.

Antisocial personality disorder treatment methods

Treatment methods that may be effective in treating antisocial personality disorder include:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Rational Emotive Therapy generally views, thoughts, feelings and actions as having a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship and that one needs to emphasize all 3 of these modalities in their interactions when impacting behavior.
• Gottman Couples Therapy believes that couples need to be able to work on becoming better friends, learn to manage conflict, and create ways to support each other’s hopes for the future.
• Solution focused therapy views people as inherently strong and resilient, and capable of creating change and discovering solutions to their everyday problem.
• Reality therapy generally believes that individuals choose their behaviour and as a result, are responsible for not only what they are doing, but also how they think and feel. Clients develop the psychological strength to evaluate their own behaviour and acquire more effective behaviour with the support of a warm and accepting counselling environment.
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a treatment method that is similar to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) but emphasizes building skills to manage stress, mental health issues, and the psycho-social aspects of relationship building.

Before any therapeutic treatments are recommended, a full assessment must first be completed by one of Insight Psychological’s licensed therapists. Once you’ve had an assessment, your therapists will discuss with you the best treatment methods for your unique circumstances and personality.