Disorders of Character: Persistent Enuresis, Juvenile Delinquency and Psychopathic Personality.

The Treatment of Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Disorders: A Review

There is a considerable amount of controversy surrounding the treatment of psychopathic and antisocial personality disorders. Different methods of treatment have been tried with those diagnosed with the condition, but the lack of controlled follow-up research in this area has made it difficult to evaluate their effectiveness. What has emerged, however, is that the core elements of psychopathy m...

[Juvenile delinquency].

Juvenile Delinquency

potentiality the mature pattern of social behaviour depends upon the pattern of behaviour established in early family relationships. Normal behaviour presupposes that the child in the home should have met firstly with stable and secure affection. This is a biological need without which he cannot develop normally. In its absence, relative or, rarely, complete, he will be liable to a wide variety...

Juvenile Delinquency

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book co...

Juvenile delinquency and psychopathic traits: an empirical study with Portuguese adolescents.

The objective of the present study was to analyze the role of psychopathic traits in juvenile delinquency. Using a sample of 543 young males from the Juvenile Detention Centers of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice and from schools in the Lisbon region, a group of high psychopathic traits (n = 281) and a group of low psychopathic traits (n = 262) were formed based on the Portuguese version of A...