...Shannon DeBlasio; Dara Mojtahedi Purpose The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (Tri-PM) was developed in 2010 as an alternative approach to the assessment of psychopathy. The measure aims to capture psychopathic traits on a 3-factor model, which encompass the characteristics established in previous...

...Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen; Jessica Burns; Reba Khoshabe; Nicole Raposo; Danielle Sng; Jarkko Jalava; Stephanie Griffiths Purpose The purpose of this study was to survey practitioners’ use and perceptions of psychopathy assessments in Canadian forensic psychiatric settings. Psychopathy assessments...

...Michael Lewis Purpose For decades, psychopathy has been thought to be untreatable. Yet, conceptualisations, and indeed its assessment, have deviated away from viewing the disorder as personality pathology towards a behavioural focus where the core underlying deficits in cognition and affect have...

... Licensed re-use rights only Psychopathy Treatment Social skills Personality disorder Group process Group cohesion Therapeutic alliance Facilitator style Skill consolidation The effectiveness of treatment for personality disordered offenders has been a longstanding contentious issue...

...Lindsay A. Sewall; Mark E. Olver Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine sexual offender treatment responses as a function of psychopathy subtype. Design/methodology/approach Measures of sexual violence risk, treatment change and outcome variables were coded retrospectively on a sample...

... for psychopathy. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes how the theoretical rationale and model of change underpinning Kaizen can be applied to those with high levels of psychopathic traits given the available literature in this area. Findings It is argued that Kaizen is applicable to those...

... as a therapy for complex needs and second, music as a therapy for offending behaviour. These two sections explore music therapy as an effective intervention method for offending behaviour and/or complex needs. Psychopathy as a complex need is a subsidiary theme that is also investigated within this section...

...Alice L. Bennett Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the range of personality disorder diagnoses and levels of psychopathy as assessed by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) associated with treatment discontinuation in a sample of adult male prisoners. Design/methodology...