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Therapeutic Responses of Psychopathic Sexual Offenders: Treatment Attrition, Therapeutic Change, and Long-Term Recidivism
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Olver, Mark E.; Wong, Stephen C. P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
The authors examined the therapeutic responses of psychopathic sex offenders (greater than or equal to 25 Psychopathy Checklist-Revised; PCL-R) in terms of treatment dropout and therapeutic change, as well as sexual and violent recidivism over a 10-year follow-up among 156 federally incarcerated sex offenders treated in a high-intensity inpatient…
Descriptors: Intervention, Check Lists, Recidivism, Sexual Abuse
Childhood Abuse and Mental Health Indicators among Ethnically Diverse Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults
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Balsam, Kimberly F.; Lehavot, Keren; Beadnell, Blair; Circo, Elizabeth – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: Prior research has established that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people experience higher rates of childhood abuse than heterosexuals. However, there has been little research on the mental health impact of these experiences or how race/ethnicity might influence prevalence and mental health impact of childhood abuse in this…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health
Psychopathic Traits in a Large Community Sample: Links to Violence, Alcohol Use, and Intelligence
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Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
Numerous studies conducted with offender or forensic psychiatric samples have revealed that individuals with psychopathic traits are at risk for violence and other externalizing psychopathology. These traits appear to be continuously distributed in these samples, leading investigators to speculate on the presence of such traits in the general…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Violence, Persuasive Discourse, Drinking
The Generalizability of the Youth Self-Report Syndrome Structure in 23 Societies
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Ivanova, Masha Y.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Dumenci, Levent; Almqvist, Fredrik; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Broberg, Anders G.; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Forns, Maria; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn; Oh, Kyung Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans- Christoph; Weintraub, Sheila; Winkler Metzke, Christa; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
As a basis for theories of psychopathology, clinical psychology and related disciplines need sound taxonomies that are generalizable across diverse populations. To test the generalizability of a statistically derived 8-syndrome taxonomic model for youth psychopathology, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed on the Youth Self-Report…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Age
Culture and Youth Psychopathology: Testing the Syndromal Sensitivity Model in Thai and American Adolescents
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Weisz, John R.; Weiss, Bahr; Suwanlert, Somsong; Chaiyasit, Wanchai – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
Current widespread use of the same youth assessment measures and scales across different nations assumes that youth psychopathology syndromes do not differ meaningfully across nations. By contrast, the authors' syndromal sensitivity model posits 3 processes through which cultural differences can lead to cross-national differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epidemiology, Cultural Differences, Child Behavior
Explaining the Link Between Low Socioeconomic Status and Psychopathology: Testing Two Mechanisms of the Social Causation Hypothesis
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Wadsworth, Martha E.; Achenbach, Thomas M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Two mechanisms of the hypothesized social causation of psychopathology--differential incidence and cumulative prevalence--were tested over 9 years in a nationally representative sample of 1,075 children and youths, ages 8-17 at Time 1 (1986). Analyses using parental responses on behavior checklists at 4 time points showed significant increases in…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Incidence, Adolescents, Socioeconomic Status
Do Black and White Youths Differ in Levels of Psychopathic Traits? A Meta-Analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist Measures
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McCoy, Wendy K.; Edens, John F. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
Putative ethnic group differences in various forms of psychopathology may have important theoretical, clinical, and policy implications. Recently, it has been argued that individuals of African descent are more likely to be psychopathic than those of European descent (R. Lynn, 2002). Preliminary evidence from the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth…
Descriptors: African American Children, Whites, Youth, Ethnic Groups