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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
Performance of Male Psychopaths Following Conditional Release from Prison.
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Hart, Stephen D.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Administered Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) to criminals being released from prison on parole or mandatory supervision, then examined official parole supervision files for postrelease behavior. Violation of release conditions, suspensions, and presentation of supervisory problems were directly proportional, and the probability of subjects remaining…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries, Males, Prisoners
Posttraumatic Intrusion, Avoidance, and Social Functioning: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study
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Solomon, Zahava; Mikulincer, Mario – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
The study assesses posttraumatic intrusion, avoidance, and social functioning among 214 Israeli combat veterans from the first Lebanon War with and without combat stress reaction (CSR) 1, 2, 3, and 20 years after the war. CSR veterans reported higher intrusion and avoidance than did non-CSR veterans. With time, there was a decline in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychopathology, Veterans, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Comparison of Procedures for the Assessment of Psychopathy.
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Hare, Robert D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Compared several clinical-behavioral and self-report measures of psychopathy in a sample of 274 male prison inmates. Found much stronger agreement among the clinical-behavioral measures (ratings, checklist, and DSM-III) than among the self-report measures. Agreement between these two measurement domains was, with few exceptions, rather poor. (BH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Prisoners, Psychological Evaluation
Risk Models of Dating Aggression across Different Adolescent Relationships: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach
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Williams, Tricia S.; Connolly, Jennifer; Pepler, Debra; Craig, Wendy; Laporte, Lise – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
The present study examined physical dating aggression in different adolescent relationships and assessed linear, threshold, and moderator risk models for recurrent aggressive relationships. The 621 participants (59% girls, 41% boys) were drawn from a 1-year longitudinal survey of Canadian high school youths ranging from Grade 9 through Grade 12.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Psychopathology, Risk, Adolescents
Male Psychopaths and Their Criminal Careers.
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Hare, Robert D.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined criminal histories of male psychopaths and nonpsychopaths, exploring time in prison and conviction rates for five-year periods between ages of 16 and 45. Criminal activities of nonpsychopaths were relatively constant over years; activities of psychopaths remained high until around age 40, then declined dramatically. Results are consistent…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Burnout, Comparative Analysis, Crime
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
Brief Group Psychoeducation for Bulimia Nervosa: Assessing the Clinical Significance of Change.
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Davis, Ron; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1990
Brief intervention designed to promote symptom management was completed by 41 women with bulimia nervosa. Findings revealed diversity of outcomes that individuals reported following participation in intervention. Found differential reporting of clinically significant change in favor of specific eating psychopathology relative to personality…
Descriptors: Adults, Bulimia, Change, Females
The Specific Psychopathology of Bulimia Nervosa: A Comparison with Restrained and Unrestrained (Normal) Eaters.
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Laessle, Reinhold G.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1989
Compared 20 bulimics, 20 restrained eaters, and 20 unrestrained eaters. Found that restrained eaters differed significantly from unrestrained eaters and were similar to bulimics except for level of psychopathology. Restrained and unrestrained eaters were similar on measures of interoceptive perception, depression, self-esteem, and fears about…
Descriptors: Bulimia, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Eating Habits
Beyond Longitudinal Data: Causes, Consequences, Changes, and Continuity.
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Rutter, Michael – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Addresses strategies needed in using longitudinal data on psychopathology to test cause-and-effect relationships, including natural experiments, testing of competing hypotheses on mechanisms, study of reversal effects, multiple replications in different circumstances, use of designs to dissociate possible mechanisms, testing for dose-response…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Correlates of Competence in a Child Psychiatric Population.
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Cohen, Nancy J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined the relationship of individual and composite measures of child competence with family background and adult ratings of psychopathology. Children scoring high on a composite competence index were rated by parents and teachers as showing fewer problems. Composite measures related more strongly to parent and teacher ratings than did single…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Children, Competence, Family Characteristics
Factor Structure of the Psychopathology Checklist.
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Harpur, Timothy J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Examined whether Psychopathology Checklist contains stable and replicable factor structure by factor-analyzing data from male prisoners (N=1,119) in Canada, United States, and England. Found two-factor solution replicated in all samples. Factor 1 defined by personality traits: superficiality; habitual lying/manipulation; callousness; lack of…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Criminals, Cross Cultural Studies, Factor Structure
Treatment of Severe Social Phobia: Effects of Guided Exposure with and without Cognitive Restructuring.
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Mattick, Richard P.; Peters, Lorna – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Assigned social phobics with severe scrutiny fears to therapist-guided exposure without and including cognitive restructuring. Found the combined condition significantly more effective in endstate functioning, in increasing behavioral approach, and in decreasing self-rated avoidance. Treatment-induced changes in fear of negative evaluation,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques
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
The Relationship between Conceptual Tempo and Depression in Children.
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Schwartz, Michael; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Compared the Matching Familiar Figures Test performances of 53 children in grades five and six, identified as being depressed, to performances of 53 nondepressed children. The depressed group had longer latencies, made more errors, and was less efficient, even when intellectual differences were taken into account. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Testing, Conceptual Tempo, Depression (Psychology)