PCL:SV and PCL:YV
Definition
Derived instruments: the 12-item Screening Version (Hart, Cox and Hare 1995) for research/screening contexts; the Youth Version (Forth, Kosson and Hare 2003) for adolescents, with explicit developer cautions against adult-equivalent risk inferences from adolescent scores.
- PCL:SV
- 12-item Screening Version, Hart, Cox and Hare, 1995
- PCL:YV
- Youth Version, Forth, Kosson and Hare, 2003
- PCL:SV use
- Research and screening contexts
- PCL:YV use
- Adolescents, with developer caution against adult-equivalent risk inference
Common questions
Why did the developers caution against treating a high PCL:YV score like an adult PCL-R score?+
Adolescent personality is still developing, and traits that look psychopathic in a teenager, such as impulsivity or shallow affect, can be transient developmental features rather than a stable pattern, so the developers warned against using youth scores to predict lifelong risk the way adult PCL-R scores are sometimes used.
When would an evaluator use the Screening Version instead of the full PCL-R?+
The Screening Version is used when a brief research or triage assessment is needed rather than a full clinical-forensic evaluation, since its 12 items take less time to administer than the full 20-item PCL-R but still flag individuals warranting closer assessment.
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