Investigating the effectiveness of cognitive-analytical therapy on the level of ego empowerment, emotional stability and communication skills in prisoners with antisocial personality disorder.

Investigating the effectiveness of cognitive-analytical therapy on improving the symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder.

The sample size in this research is at maximum, 40 people, who will be distributed into intervention and control groups by simple randomization, and the research has been designed as a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and in the Single blind manner .

This research will held in one of the prisons of the country. First, two hundred Milon Inventories, will be taken so that sample people are identified; Then they will be randomly placed in the intervention and contro groups; Then, questionnaires related to the research variables will be taken; Then the 10 session protocol of cognitive-analytic therapy will be applied on the intervention group. Finally, questionnaires measuring research variables will be collected again from the members of both groups and the results will be analyzed.

The participants in this research will be the prisoners with antisocial personality disorder. The condition for entering this research is to obtain scores of antisocial personality disorder. The main conditions for Not entering the study before randomization will be: 1) Non cooperation and participation of the participants. 2) Not being able to read, write, hear and speak.

In the intervention group, 10 session protocol of cognitive-analytic therapy will be applied. In the control group, no protocol will be applied.

1) Scores obtained in the Psychological Inventory of Ego Strength. 2) Scores obtained in the NEO Inventory (60 questions short form). 3) Scores obtained in the communication skills assessment inventory.

Assignment of patients to Intervention and Control groups will be done using the "lottery method"; also The randomization method will be "simple randomization" and the randomization unit will be "individual." The description of the procedure is so that: Before taking Milon's multi-axis clinical inventory, the fourth edition, each participant will be randomly assigned to a number between 1 to 200. After taking the inventory and going through the The process of reviewing answer sheets, inevitably, people with Antisocial Personality Disorder will be identified; Therefore, in the following, the researcher, without paying attention to any other variable, such as surname, name, age, ethnicity, or the crime committed, and based only on the random numbers previously assigned to each of the participants, will execute the distribution of randomly identified people to intervention and control groups.

Participants: Before the application of the therapeutic protocol of the interventions; they (Participants) will only be told in general that: "In case of participation and cooperation, they will benefit from 10 free counseling sessions", and only specialized informations will not be provided to them; But it is obvious that after the beginning of therapeutic interventions, the participants spontaneously will be informed about the measures being applied in the process of "implementing the interventions". Data analysts: They will also be unaware of the possible results in question, and in this order, without knowing exactly what results they should be looking for, they will only analyze the data.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-analytical psychotherapy instruction (protocol) on alleviating the symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder, and the researcher will reveal & share all of the data, documentations and results of this research with the general audience. Obviously, this sharing will in no way negate the principle of protection and preservation of participants's personal information. It is also worth mentioning that the publication of all or part of the data, documentations, results and the method of information analysis will be subject to the permission of the Prison Affairs Organization of the country.

From September 22, 2024 onwards and after the issuance of the necessary permissions by the Prison Affairs Organization of the country.

After issuing the necessary permits from the country's prison affairs organization, All special and general audiences and all interested people will have permission to access all of the data, documents and research results. Also, curious audiences can communicate with the researcher digitally or even in person in order to get more information.

1) The intention and purpose of the person requesting the data, documentations, method of analysis and results must be identified. 2) Issuance of necessary permits by the Prison Affairs Organization of the country. 3) Obtaining the written and legally traceable consent of the researchers regarding the preservation of the intellectual property rights of the data, documentations, method of analysis and results.

Although after the issuance of the necessary permits by the Prison Affairs Organization of the country, all or part of the data, documents and results of this research will be available to the public in the form of extracted articles, curious audiences can send their requests to the researcher's personal email address, which is: a7.najm@gmail.com.

The process of receiving the requested information is such that after receiving the email from the applicant, the researcher will study the information they is considering and send the requested items as soon as possible. This period of time will be at maximum of one Month.