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Desmarais, Sarah L.; Nicholls, Tonia L.; Wilson, Catherine M.; Brink, Johann – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START; C. D. Webster, M. L. Martin, J. Brink, T. L. Nicholls, & S. L. Desmarais, 2009; C. D. Webster, M. L. Martin, J. Brink, T. L. Nicholls, & C. Middleton, 2004) is a relatively new structured professional judgment guide for the assessment and management of short-term risks associated…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Validity, Personality Problems, Personality
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Feenstra, Dine J.; Hutsebaut, Joost; Verheul, Roel; Busschbach, Jan J. V. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118; Verheul et al., 2008) is a self-report questionnaire focusing on core components of (mal)adaptive personality functioning. The SIPP-118 was developed and validated in an adult population. In adult populations, the 16 facets of the SIPP-118 fit into 5 higher order domains: self-control,…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Validity, Pathology, Personality
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Cooke, David J.; Michie, Christine – Psychological Assessment, 1997
An item-response-theory approach was used to evaluate test and item functioning for the Hare Psychopathy Checklist--Revised (R. D. Hare, 1991) using data from 2,067 North American patients and prisoners. Analyses support the use of the test for diagnosis of psychopathic personality disorder and measures of trait strength. (SLD)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Diagnostic Tests, Item Response Theory, Mental Disorders
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Douglas, Kevin S.; Strand, Susanne; Belfrage, Henrik; Fransson, Goran; Levander, Sten – Assessment, 2005
This study evaluated the structural reliability, construct-related validity, and cultural validity generalization of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) in a sample of more than 560 male and female Swedish forensic psychiatric treatment patients, forensic evaluation patients, and criminal offenders. Structural reliability…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Check Lists, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Bradley, Rebekah; Zittel Conklin, Carolyn; Westen, Drew – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: This study aimed to identify personality features characterizing adolescent girls and boys with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and to see whether meaningful patterns of heterogeneity exist among adolescents diagnosed with the disorder. Methods: Two hundred and ninety-four randomly selected doctoral-level clinicians described…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Personality Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Evaluation Criteria