PCL-R: The Test of Success

"People pretend to do a lot of conversations among people, I think I will pretend to all of them, and I made them a lot better," said an unscrupled television serial killer Dexter I admitted. Thoughts and statements similar to this can be considered morally expressible or aggressive, but the rest and taste of these actions do not preclude reliable and significant benefits. For a long time psychosis has been called a personality disorder; diseases thought to pose a serious threat to society require treatment by sedation, imprisonment and hypertension.

Mental disorders were evaluated by clinicians and clinicians introduced psychosis checklists - revised tests. PCL - R is to measure antisocial behavior based on medical records and evidence from judicial records and documents, shallow, impulsive, ruthless, criminal history, and lack of moral and emotional characteristics Reliable and effective tool. As an extensive interview with forensic patients. It is based on research by Grann et al. (1998), a PCL-R cutoff score of 26 was used to classify current samples into psychosis patients (PCL - R ≧ 26) and non - psychotic patients (PCL - R <26). The total PCL-R score is available to all 37 offenders. However, out of 14 psychiatric patients, two were listed in the criminal record that they had high PCL-R scores, but no accurate scores were mentioned. Therefore, the relationship between the PCL-R score and the type of crime in a psychiatric patient population (Figures 3 and 4) applies only to 12 psychiatric patients.

According to the conceptualization of this disease by Cleckley, Dr. Robert Hare (Figure 4) made a psychiatric examination paper (PCL) in 1980 and modified it in 1991 (PCL-R) (Hare, 1991) FIG. 5). Psychiatric checklists and their successors are the most widely used expert evaluation equipment to evaluate psychiatric diseases today (Craig et. Al, 2008). PCL - R consists of 20 projects to evaluate the existence of psychotic features of adults. The standard procedure for completing the PCL - R consists of two parts. The first part contains a detailed review on the sources of incidental information (eg family reports, education, extracurricular activities, practical experience, family and friends relationships). The second part of the evaluation is an interview with the patient's detailed life history. A face-to-face interview is strongly recommended, but if you have enough additional information about the patient, you do not need to fill out the psychotherapy checklist.