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As we grow, our brain continues to develop through adolescence. We know that while different areas in the brain are...

The Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI and DVSI-R versions) was designed to assess the risk of repeated domestic violence in...

Exercise is commonly associated with aerobic activity or sustained activity over a period of time that utilizes and strengthens the...

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) is a 12-item symptom-construct rating scale designed for use by expert observers to...

An experiment is a scientific study designed to uncover information about cause and effect through examining the influence of changes...

The construct of psychopathy as applied to children and adolescents has received increasing attention in recent years. Many researchers and...

To understand the function of an experimental group, one must first know what an experiment is, since that is the...

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (2nd edition, PCL-R) is a 20-item rating scale for the measurement of the clinical construct of...

Experimental method is a method in which a variable (independent variable that is hypothesized as a cause; IV) is manipulated...

The HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme is a 20-item violence risk assessment tool, accompanied by a 97-page user’s manual. It...

The Jail Screening Assessment Tool (JSAT) is a screening tool developed for the purpose of identifying mentally disordered offenders in...

Extinction is a reductive procedure used to decrease the occurrence of a given behavior. Specifically, extinction  involves  withholding  reinforcement  for...

Violence risk assessment is now widely assumed by policy makers and the public to be a core skill of the...

Alfred Kinsey sent shockwaves though American society in 1948 when he reported that about half of all  married  men  had ...

The Minnesota Sex Offender Screening Tool-Revised (MnSOST-R) is a 16-item, “actuarial” risk assessment tool initially developed for the Minnesota Department...

What Is Failure To Thrive? From the day a baby is born, parents will focus their attention on the child’s...

The Novaco Anger Scale (NAS) is a self-report questionnaire with Cognitive, Arousal, and Behavioral subscales that constitute a 48-item NAS...

F als e memories is a broad term used to refer to various aspects of memory errors and distortions that...

The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a widely used self-report measure designed to detect the principal personality traits of psychopathy....

Family size exerts an extremely strong and broad influence on development. The influence is strong in the sense that the...

Psychopathy treatment is a controversial and underinvestigated area of study. Many researchers and clinicians have suggested that the pervasive and...

Significant societal shifts in the definitions and role expectations of fathers have occurred within the past 50 years. In the decades...

The Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism, abbreviated as the RRASOR (pronounced like the cutting tool), is an actuarial...

Maternal and fetal medicine (MFM) is the subspecialty within the field of obstetrics and gynecology that deals with the complications...

Violence risk assessment is relevant to the field of law and psychology because it occurs at numerous junctures in the...

Although clinical psychological assessment is generally expected to be specific to particular interventions with demonstrated efficacy, there is insufficient empirical...

F ine motor control refers to the ability to precisely move and position the limbs, extremities, and digits (especially the...

During the past 15 years, sex offender civil commitment laws have emerged that require some dangerous sex offenders to receive...

One cannot help but marvel at the accomplishments of a skilled pianist, athlete, or craftsman. Even those without exceptional proficiencies...

Now primarily of historical interest, the Sex Offender Needs Assessment Rating (SONAR) was the first focused attempt to assess change...

This article is divided into three parts. In the first part we consider the historical background of the development of...