Cuando la emoción es un problemaun estudio meta-analítico de la eficacia de los tratamientos con sujetos diagnosticados como psicópatas

  1. Garrido Genovés, Vicente Javier 1
  2. Sánchez Meca, Julio 2
  3. Esteban Martínez, Cristina 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

  2. 2 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Journal:
Ansiedad y estrés

ISSN: 1134-7937

Year of publication: 1996

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 55-68

Type: Article

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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.

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