Associations Between Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits and Emotion Recognition Abilities in School Children: The Influence of Conduct Problems and Age.

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with severe conduct problems (CP) in youth. Causal theories for CU traits focus on emotion processing deficits that interfere with empathy development. However, though CU traits are consistently associated with deficits in affective empathy (i.

A Comparison of Parent, Teacher, and Youth Ratings on the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits.

The current study compared the validity of self-, parent-, and teacher-report versions of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU), a widely used measure of callous-unemotional (CU) traits, at several different ages. Participants ( = 236, 60.6% girls) were children in Grades 3, 6, and 8 ( = 11.

Developing Cutoff Scores for the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in Justice-Involved and Community Samples.

The recent addition of the callous-unemotional (CU) traits specifier, "with Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE)," to major classification systems has prompted the need for assessment tools that aid in the identification of elevations on these traits for diagnostic purposes. The goal of the current study was to use and evaluate multiple methods for establishing cutoff scores for the multi-informant questionnaire, the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU). The present study compared the clinical utility of various proposed cutoff methods and scores (i.

Understanding the Social Relationships of Youth with Callous-Unemotional Traits Using Peer Nominations.

Objective: The current study investigated the social and interpersonal correlates of callous-unemotional (CU) traits using peer nominations.

Method: Participants ( = 289) were children in Grades 3, 6, and 8 (= 11.47 years, 40.

Psychometric Properties of a Semistructured Interview to Assess Limited Prosocial Emotions.

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have recently been added to the diagnostic criteria of Conduct Disorder in the and of conduct-dissocial and oppositional defiant disorders in the International Classification of Disease-Eleventh edition as the limited prosocial emotions specifier. This change necessitates the assessment of these traits with validated measures in both research and clinical contexts. The current study sought to validate a semi-structured diagnostic interview method, the Michigan Limited Prosocial Emotion Addendum (M-LPE) to the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version, of assessing CU traits based on a recently developed clinician rating system (Clinical Assessment of Prosocial Emotions, Version 1.

Does self-report of aggression after first arrest predict future offending and do the forms and functions of aggression matter?

The current study tested whether a self-report measure of aggression (i.e., the Peer Conflict Scale; PCS) would predict later delinquency, after controlling for other risk factors, and tested whether the different forms and functions of aggression contributed independently to this prediction.

Cognitive status and profile validity on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in offenders with serious mental illness.

Cognitive impairment among seriously mentally ill offenders has implications for legal matters (e.g., competency to stand trial), as well as clinical treatment and care.