Courtney Moore

Jean Coco
English 1001
9 November 2016

Anderson, Nathaniel E., and Kent A. Kiehl. Psychopathy: Developmental Perspectives and
Their Implications for Treatment. Restorative neurology and neuroscience 32.1 (2014):
103117. PMC. Web. 22 Nov. 2016.
Dr. Kent Kiehl is a partner educator in the branch of brain science at the University of
New Mexico. He got a four-year college education in brain science with an accentuation in
science from the University of California Davis (1993), and both a graduate degree (1996) and a
Ph.D. (2000) in brain research and neuroscience from the University of British Columbia. Dr.
Nathaniel Anderson has a Ph. D. in Abnormal Psychology, Legal Psychology (Psychology and
Law), and Biological Psychology. In the article, the authors review recent neuropsychiatric and
neuroimaging literature which helps us to understand how the brain functions in psychopathy.
The data is then applied to a further understanding of how and when it develops. The information
ultimately promotes more proactive intervention strategies that could be most beneficial results
in youth. My paper is on whether psychopathy can be treated in children. The fact that the article
gives beneficial results from treating children with psychopathic tendencies proves useful in my
paper.

Christian, R. E., Frick, P. J., Hill, N. L., Tyler, L., & Frazer, D. R. (1997). Psychopathy and
conduct problems in children: Implications for subtyping children with conduct problems.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 233241.
Dr. Christian works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama. He
along with the other authors of the journal have their Ph. D in psychology. As well as Dr. Paul
Frick working in the research department of psychology at Louisiana state University. The
journal questions whether the presence of callous and unemotional (CU) traits targets a specific
group of children with conduct problems that that relate to adult conceptualizations of
psychopathy. The results showed that most of the children presented with callous and
unemotional traits did in fact relate to the traits of adult psychopaths. With this information, I can
conclude that children with callous and unemotional traits may be the beginning development of
psychopathy in adult hood.

Forth, A. E., Kosson, D. S., & Hare, R. D. (in press). Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version.
Toronto, Ontario: Multi-Health Systems.
Robert Hare is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, where
he has instructed and directed research for over four decades, and President of Darkstone
Research Group Ltd., a criminological research, and counseling firm. He has dedicated most of
his academic career to the examination of psychopathy. He is the creator of the Psychopathy
Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and a co-creator of its subordinates, the Psychopathy Checklist:
Screening Version, the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, the Antisocial Process Screening
Device, and the P-Scan (for use in law implementation). Adelle is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Psychology/Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University.

She is the senior creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version. David Kosson has
most of his degrees in civil engineering but is the Director of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation
with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP). The youth checklist is a revised checklist for youth who
are believed to show the early stages of psychopathy. I will refer to this checklist in my paper
when discussing the traits children have in common with adult psychopathy and how this is
measured.

Harpur, T. J., & Hare, R. D. (1994). Assessment of psychopathy as a function of age. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 103, 604609.
Harpur works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois. Robert Hare
is a well-known psychologist who has assessed psychopathy for decades. Harpur and Hare work
together to show age- related qualities in callous and unemotional children as well as anti-social
children are not that different when looking at psychopathic traits. I will use this information to
add on my evidence of children being in danger of developing psychopathy.
Kahn, Jennifer. "Can You Call A 9-Year-Old A Psychopath?". Nytimes.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 22
Nov. 2016.
Jennifer Kahn is a science journalist who teaches in the magazine program at the UC
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and is a contributing writer for the New York Times
Magazine; she has written features and cover stories for The New Yorker, National Geographic,
Outside, Wired and many more. The article above discusses studies on children with
psychopathic traits focusing on a 9-year-old child. Different psychologist argues on whether it is
beneficial to use children to study the development and treatment strategies for psychopathy. One
of the main parts of the article is to give hope to those parents who struggle to understand these

psychopathic traits in their children by showing what treatment programs have shown beneficial
results. In my paper, I plan to incorporate the information about the treatment programs. The
programs results will prove useful in trying to answer my inquiry question.

Ribeiro da Silva, Diana, Daniel Rijo, and Randall T. Salekin. "Child and Adolescent
Psychopathy: Assessment Issues and Treatment Needs." Aggression & Violent Behavior
18.1 (2013): 71-78. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Nov. 2016.
Diana Ribeiro da Silva and Daniel Rijo both work in the Research Unit of the CognitiveBehavioral Research and Intervention Center, and are faculty of psychology and
educational sciences at the University of Coimbra. Randall T. Salekin work in the
department of psychology at the University of Alabama. The authors have written a few
articles together and series of journals on Psychopathy. In this work, they assess violent
behavior to better address psychopathic traits in youth. They identify different methods
that can be used to address psychopathic traits in youth and adolescents. I will try to
incorporate their results into my paper.

Steinberg, Laurence. "Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public
Policy?" Issues in Science and Technology 28, no. 3 (Spring 2012).
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., is the distinguished university professor and Laura H. Carnell
Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Steinberg is a former President of the Division of
Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Research
on Adolescence, which make his article more than a credible source for my paper. The article provides
information on the developing adolescent brain. It uses the information on the development of the

adolescent brain and applies it to how to time treatment for psychopathic traits. If I use this information
psychopathic traits I in in my paper I can help the audience better understand why researchers see a
chance in traits in children.