Therapy for a sociopath?

What type of therapy can be court-ordered for a sociopath (diagnosed as bi-polar with anti-social psychotic disorder) to be able to have supervised visitation for his children? What duration would be prescribed? Is there any way for this person to be well enough to be a positive influence to his children? Has not seen his kids in 2 years since he plead guilty to domestic violence with a weapon (switchblade).

I would be afraid even of supervised because he is good at making people feel sorry for him and blaming others for what he does. That is why I don't think he should have any kind of contact whatsoever.

Hi!
As a therapist, I would not let someone with Antisocial personality disorder within 20 yards of my children.

Sadly, there is very little therapy or treatment which has been shown to be effective for APD. APD is a personality disorder which by definition is a pervasive (on going) life long disorder. In many cases, these people seem to be born with no concious or sense or right and wrong. In many cases the get pleasure out of cruelity to others.

At times, those with APD are given anti-psychotic medications such as abilify, zyprexa, serequel and risperdall as they have been shown to help people become less agressive...however, this is an off label use and not something that has been shown to "treat" or "cure" this disorder.

Those with APD can engage in therapy, however it has not been shown to be helpful.

Don't let the courts tell you anger management , domestic violence courses or parenting classes are enough. This person has a life long disorder. Please keep yourself and your children safe.

Love and blessings to you.

I don't know if there is ANY therapy for someone who is diagnosed with that sort of disorder. Sociopaths are very difficult to treat as they have to be willing to accept they have a problem and a psychologist would need to be rather tough to be able to handle them. I can't see why they wouldn't be able to have visitation so long as it was supervised, but definitely not unsupervised.
The only sociopaths I know are either in jail or should be in jail but have only manipulated and abused people so they cannot be arrested.
There is no way of therapy because sociopathy is so difficult to detect in people. My ex-friend was only detected when he killed someone and then it all added up as to what sort of person he was.

A person with this type of diagnoses will have lifelong patterns of thinking. It is ingrained in his personality.
I do not know if there is any kind of therapy for someone like that to get better and change.

None and No.

The if the diagnosis is correct, I would get as far away from this person as possible as soon as possible. There is no treatment for this diagnosis.

according to studies sociopaths don't change, therapy usually don't change them much and may even help them learn how to lie more. They are the few if which therapy may not help. He needs to get in touch with his childhood and feel the pain. People only become sociopath/psychopath through extreme abuse.