However, that is not necessarily the same thing as describing psychopathy in a way that captures the underlying dysfunction that typifies the disorder.
As Justman reports, the Feighner group viewed an absence of guilt as "prohibitively impractical." The Feighner group and the subsequent DSM groups tried to taxonomize mental illnesses in a reliable and predictable way. It seems correct that many held the absence of guilt to be the psychological marker of psychopathy and that it was discarded primarily for reasons for reliability. Justman's correct that before the work of the Feighner group and the adoption of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-III, the choice of concept did not seem to be vital and in the Mask of Sanity, Cleckley mentions all three terms and does not seem to think much hangs on which term we choose (Cleckley, 1988, p. Italian - Available from Guinti O.S.T he drift toward behavioral accounts of the cluster of psychological and behavioral traits that were interchangeably referred to as psychopathy, sociopathy and anti-social personality is interesting and well worth exploring (Justman, 2021). To inquire about existing translations, to translate an MHS assessment, or to obtain permission to reproduce MHS copyrighted material please contact for further information.īrazilian Portuguese - Available from MHSĭanish - Available from Hogrefe Psykologisk Forlagĭutch - Available from Pearson Netherlands (no longer available) The PCL:YV yields dimensional scores for clinical purposes, but it can also be used to classify individuals into groups for research purposes. Using a semistructured interview and collateral information, the PCL:YV measures interpersonal, affective, and behavioral features related to a widely understood, traditional concept of psychopathy. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) is a 20-item rating scale for the assessment of psychopathic traits in male and female offenders aged 12 to 18.Īdapted from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), the most widely used measure of psychopathy in adults, the PCL:YV uses an expert-rater format that emphasizes the need for multidomain and multisource information.
Identifying youth with psychopathic traits is critical to understanding the factors that contribute to the development of adult psychopathy. Robert Hare's Web Site devoted to the study of Psychopathy The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV)
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