Three Common Treatment Interventions Affecting One's Behavior

1. A. During the lecture we talked a lot about the many ways that thinking can affect one’s behavior. The way one thinks about things can produce the same behavior. Some examples from Bichsel’s lecture that shows how behavior is determined by thinking are: that if someone is thinking in a distorted or criminal way, their behavior becomes distorted or criminal, and if someone has changed or responsible thinking it produces changed and responsible behavior. Not only does thinking change behavior but it also happens in continuous patterns with 3 parts: victim stance (unrealistic beliefs of being blamed or singled out), lack of trust (when one doesn’t open up and trust others), and superoptimism (unwarranted beliefs that problems are solved or

In order to go to the next pattern the person has to know what their characteristic thinking.
B. Some interventions are difficult because a criminal or addict can’t see the interaction between cause and effect, lack empathy, etc. The three common treatment interventions to counteract the above thinking are to connect behavior to cognitive cause, give up hurtful behaviors, and rehearse new thinking and behavior.
2. According to the lecture the three most common personality disorders are borderline personality, narcissistic personality, and antisocial personality (Bichsel). Each personality disorder has their own set of characteristics. For the characteristics of antisocial personality they have to do with the person disregarding or violating the rights of other people. People with antisocial personality don’t conform to social norms, they’re deceitful, impulsive, irritable, reckless, aggressive, irresponsible, lack remorse, and in order to be diagnosed with it they have to be at least 18. Someone with borderline personality disorder tends to have instable interpersonal

In Verdeyen’s article it states that, “According to Walters, if we are to understand criminal behavior, we must understand the eight primary patterns of thinking that typify and enable the lifestyle criminal to operate”. The eight primary patterns that will help us to understand criminal behavior are: mollification, the cutting of feelings, sense of entitlement, the need for power over others, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence, and discontinuity. These primary patterns relate to their belief system and behavior because a criminals belief system is there to support his actions and in doing all the things listed above it justifies, in the criminals mind, what s/he has done.
4. Antisocial behavior relates to criminality because it intertwines and coincides with each other. If an individual has a major case of antisocial behavior in their childhood it is highly likely that it will continue in their adulthood with criminal behavior and are responsible for criminal activity as well (Quinsey, 2001). Someone who has antisocial behavior will disregard social norms, have an impulsive behavior, won’t feel guilt, they will have a high sense of self-worth and more which all factor in to someone who will show having criminal