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In this article, the usefulness of ethics therapy in forensic psychiatric settings is discussed. Its aims and guidelines and its possible therapeutic approaches are presented. It is theorized that ethics therapy will be a valuable addition to the existing therapeutic methods because of its specific, exclusive, and differentiated attention for and directness to the moral basis of personality in its behavioral manifestations. Moral and ethics patterns are intrinsic to people’s personality and largely determine behavior. Without serious and stable moral improvement, any behavioral changes in the antisocial and criminal individual’s conduct will be no more than superficial cosmetic interventions, which do not really diminish the risk of reoffending in those persons.

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A Theoretical Framework of Ethics Therapy as a Distinctive Forensic Therapeutic Specialization

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