PSYCHOPATHIC KIDS Can we identify future psychopaths at an

early age?

By: Katelyn Pochapski

Can psychopathy be measured?

Yes, we can!!!

• Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and PCL-R

• Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV)

• Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV)

• P-Scan: Research Version

What are we measuring?

• The four core factors of psychopathy.

FACTOR 1: Interpersonal Manipulative Charm

FACTOR 2: Impulsive

Lives like there is no tomorrow.

Have a listen.

• Artist: The Offspring

• Song: Bad Habit

• Album: Smash

FACTOR 3: Affective

• Grandiose Self Worth

(Perfect Example)

FACTOR 4: Antisocial Tendencies

• Jim Jones of People’s Temple

• About Jim Jones

At what age do psychopathic tendencies

surface?

Things to look out for…

Callous-Unemotinal and Antisocial

Traits

Both appear to be heredetery.

Lack of empathy, the most important trait.

School Bullying, is typical of future

psychopaths.

insensitivity to punishment

What was the in-utero experience like?

Aggression often accompanies antisocial

tendencies in children. • Watch: Childhood Agression

Are children with these traits destined?

What are the treatment options?

Conclusion?

•Use for Intervention: • Oxytocin,

• Brain Damage Therapy

• Positive Reinforcement