PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Existential Therapy, Psychopathology, Defence Mechanisms

To date, there is no universally effective, long-term psychological treatment for antisocial personality disorder (or psychopathy specifically). In many cases, particularly when a psychopath or an individual with APD commits a violent crime, confinement is the only form of long-term management. What ethical concerns with this come to mind, if any? Should society explore other methods to treat/manage psychopathy, or is confinement a reasonable approach in violent circumstances?

2.Factor analysis is useful to a psychologist pursing a trait approach to personality because it allows him or her to

13. The biopsychosocial approach provides an understanding of social-cultural influences within a larger framework of a. multiple levels of analysis. b. structuralism. c. introspection. d. humanistic psychology.