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Milestone Four: Intervention Strategies

Jessica Judy Department of Criminal Justice, Southern New Hampshire University CJ 303: Psychopaths Sociopaths and Serial Killers Dr. Oludele C Doherty June 6, 2021

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IV. Intervention Strategies c). Based on the individual’s information, recommend appropriate intervention strategies for preventing future crises. Describe these interventions and justify your recommendations. Nannie Doss died from leukemia when she was in prison during the 1960s before there was much known about psychopathy, so she was never diagnosed as a psychopath. During the time that Nannie was committing her crimes, scientists were not aware of the signs and symptoms of psychopathy which are apparent today. Treating her psychopathy would have been difficult since it was unknown during her lifetime. Although, if the information had been available at that time, then someone might have noticed that something was not right with so many people dying while in Nannie’s care. Intervention strategies would not have been helpful to Nannie while she was an adult; however, if she had received interventions during her childhood then she might not have killed anyone. Some intervention strategies that could have been used with Nannie as a child would be increased eye contact, increased emotional labeling and prosocial behavior with positive reinforcement, modeling prosocial and empathic behavior using social stories and role play, and emotion recognition training (Pisano et al., 2017). These interventions would only have been beneficial if her parents had been different. Another intervention strategy that she would have benefited from is the Coping Power Program, which is a multi-component treatment program that is delivered in a group setting and has been developed using a social-cognitive model. The model focuses on the contextual parenting processes as well as on children’s sequential cognitive processing in the development and escalation of children’s behavioral problems (Pisano et al., 2017). This intervention which focuses on parenting practices promoted the decrease in callous unemotional traits in children and the group therapy can help improve emotion sharing with peers, children’s understanding of other people’s emotions, and consequently has a beneficial influence on empathy (Salekin et al., 2010, as cited in Pisano et al., 2017). Unfortunately, psychopathy has no cure, and most adult psychopaths can use any intervention to learn how to become a better psychopath. Psychopaths are manipulative and are capable of mimicking emotions in order to fool those around them on a daily basis, which means they would be quite capable of convincing a professional that they were “cured”, and they are no longer a psychopath. d) Discuss how the proposed intervention strategies meet the specific individual’s needs based on his or her personality disorder. The proposed intervention strategies meet Nannie’s needs based on her personality disorder by focusing on emotion sharing which Nannie seems incapable of as well as learning to understand the emotions of others. This intervention also helps to increase the empathy of those who are receiving the therapy. As a child, these interventions would be appropriate because the emotion regulation area of her brain would still be developing, but the interventions would not be effective during adulthood. e) Discuss interventions that would not be appropriate for the individual based on his or her personality disorder and why they would not be appropriate.

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There are several interventions that would not be appropriate for Nannie based on her personality disorder as well. Any form of intervention that would be given to an adult would not be effective because psychopaths do not feel remorse for the crimes that they commit, and they cannot empathize with what others are feeling. Attempting to teach empathy and emotions to an adult is basically impossible and would be much more effective on a child. Negative interventions such as any form of discipline that attempts to make her feel bad about the things that she has done would not work since she obviously did not feel emotions.

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INTERVENTION STRATEGIES Pisano, S., Muratori, P., Gorga, C., Levantini, V., Iuliano, R., Catone, G., Coppola, G., Milone, A., & Masi, G. (2017). Conduct disorders and psychopathy in children and adolescents: aetiology, clinical presentation and treatment strategies of callous-unemotional traits. Italian journal of pediatrics, 43(1), 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-017-0404-6

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