Associations between neurocognitive characteristics, treatment outcome, and dropout among aggressive forensic psychiatric outpatients
Publication year
2018Number of pages
20 p.
Source
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62, 12, (2018), pp. 3853-3872ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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SW OW PsKI [owi]
SW OZ BSI KLP
PI Group Memory & Emotion
Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Journal title
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Volume
vol. 62
Issue
iss. 12
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 3853
Page end
p. 3872
Subject
150 000 MR Techniques in Brain Function; All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center; Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment; Radboudumc 13: Stress-related disorders DCMN: Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience; Radboudumc 7: Neurodevelopmental disorders DCMN: Donders Center for Medical NeuroscienceAbstract
Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is widely used to reduce aggression and is considered to be effective although there are also inconsistent results. Studies investigating the effectiveness of ART do not focus on neurocognitive characteristics. Focusing on these aspects would result in enhanced understanding of underlying mechanisms of ART. The current open uncontrolled treatment study assessed whether neurocognitive characteristics were associated with change in aggression during the social skills and anger control modules of ART among forensic psychiatric outpatients. Furthermore, differences between treatment dropouts and completers and change in these characteristics during ART were examined. A reduction of trait aggression, cognitive distortions, and social anxiety was observed. Neurocognitive characteristics were not associated with change in aggression, could not distinguish treatment completers from dropouts, and did not change after ART. It is suggested that new paradigms should be developed which take into account the social context in which these impairments appear.
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