Full Description
This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment. The editors and contributors are leading authorities who review state-of-the-art empirical findings and weigh in on pressing questions, such as how the disorder should be conceptualized in youth and how to evaluate it in clinical and forensic contexts. Available assessment instruments and intervention approaches are critically examined. Etiological theories are presented that shed light on a range of potential causal mechanisms, including genetics, brain functioning, temperament, family processes, and other factors.
Contents
1. Child and Adolescent Psychopathy: An Introduction, Randall T. Salekin and Donald R. Lynam
I. Classification and Assessment
2. Conceptualizing the Psychopathic Personality: Disinhibited, Bold,...or Just Plain Mean?, Christopher J. Patrick
3. Historical Conceptions of Risk Subtyping among Children and Adolescents, John E. Lochman, Nicole P. Powell, Caroline Boxmeyer, Laura Young, and Rachel Baden
4. Assessment of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, Julie S. Kotler and Robert J. McMahon
II. Etiological Theories
5. Genetics of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, Essi Viding and Henrik Larsson
6. Callous-Unemotional Traits and Their Importance to Causal Models of Severe Antisocial Behavior in Youth, Stuart F. White and Paul J. Frick
7. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, R. James R. Blair
8. Child and Adolescent Psychopathy and Personality, Donald R. Lynam
9. Environmental Influences on Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, David P. Farrington, Simone Ullrich, and Randall T. Salekin
III. Stability, Predictive Validity, and Comorbidity
10. Stability and Change of Psychopathic Traits: What Do We Know?, Henrik Andershed
11. Psychopathic Traits in Children and Adolescents: The Relationship with Antisocial Behaviors and Aggression, Adelle E. Forth and Angela S. Book
12. Relationships of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy to Other Forms of Psychopathology
Kathrin Sevecke and David S. Kosson
IV. Special Populations, Treatment, and Forensic Applications
13. The Influences of Gender and Culture on Adolescent and Child Psychopathy, Edelyn Verona, Naomi Sadeh, and Shabnam Javdani
14. Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy: Focusing on Change, Randall T. Salekin
15. Forensic Issues for Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, Michael J. Vitacco, Randall T. Salekin, and Richard Rogers
V. Conclusions and Future Directions
16. Child and Adolescent Psychopathy: The Road Ahead, Randall T. Salekin & Donald R. Lynam
