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Treatment-Related Changes in Behavioral Outcomes of Psychopathy Facets in Adolescent Offenders

Treatment-Related Changes in Behavioral Outcomes of Psychopathy Facets in Adolescent Offenders This studyexamines the association between the facets of psychopathy embedded in thePsychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth et al., PsychopathyChecklist: Youth Version, 2003), and changes in institutional behavior andpost-treatment violent and general offending in a sample of juvenile delinquentmales treated in the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center (MJTC), an intensivetreatment program. Affective, Interpersonal, Behavioral and Antisocial facetscale scores were calculated from items of the Psychopathy Checklist: YouthVersion (PCL:YV; Forth et al.,2003). Data on daily institutional behavior werecollected from treatment records. In order to analyze re-offense patterns, thenumber and type of new criminal charges were collected over a mean follow-up of54 months (range = 24–79 months), after the youth was released fromcustody. The Interpersonal facet of the PCL:YV was significantly related toadmission behavior problems, while other facet scores were not. Youth withelevated Interpersonal facet scores showed the greatest improvement ininstitutional behavior during treatment. Treatment was also associated with asignificant decrease in general and violent offending for each facet. TheInterpersonal facet of the PCL:YV was found to play a key role in institutionaland community violence in this study. Treatment appeared to disrupt the linkbetween institutional and community violence and psychopathy features in thispopulation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

Treatment-Related Changes in Behavioral Outcomes of Psychopathy Facets in Adolescent Offenders

Law and Human Behavior , Volume 35 (4): 13 – Aug 24, 2011

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American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0147-7307
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1573-661X
DOI
10.1007/s10979-010-9239-z
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20658262
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Abstract

This studyexamines the association between the facets of psychopathy embedded in thePsychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth et al., PsychopathyChecklist: Youth Version, 2003), and changes in institutional behavior andpost-treatment violent and general offending in a sample of juvenile delinquentmales treated in the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center (MJTC), an intensivetreatment program. Affective, Interpersonal, Behavioral and Antisocial facetscale scores were calculated from items of the Psychopathy Checklist: YouthVersion (PCL:YV; Forth et al.,2003). Data on daily institutional behavior werecollected from treatment records. In order to analyze re-offense patterns, thenumber and type of new criminal charges were collected over a mean follow-up of54 months (range = 24–79 months), after the youth was released fromcustody. The Interpersonal facet of the PCL:YV was significantly related toadmission behavior problems, while other facet scores were not. Youth withelevated Interpersonal facet scores showed the greatest improvement ininstitutional behavior during treatment. Treatment was also associated with asignificant decrease in general and violent offending for each facet. TheInterpersonal facet of the PCL:YV was found to play a key role in institutionaland community violence in this study. Treatment appeared to disrupt the linkbetween institutional and community violence and psychopathy features in thispopulation.

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Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Aug 24, 2011

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