HARE PCL:YV Manual

The HARE Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (HARE PCL:YV) helps identify potential patterns of cheating, fighting, bullying, and other antisocial acts in youths. Early identification of these traits is critical, not only for the near future of these individuals, but for their development into adulthood, and helps clinicians understand the factors that contribute to the development of adult antisocial behaviour and psychopathy.

The HARE PCL:YV is a clinician-rated instrument that uses a structured interview and collateral information to assess psychopathic traits in youth. The clinician rates items on a scale of 0 to 2 (Yes, No, and Maybe) indicating whether or not the statement is true of the individual.

Adapted from the HARE Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (HARE PCL-R), the most widely used measure of psychopathy in adults, the HARE PCL:YV uses an expert-rater format that emphasises the need for multidomain and multisource information.

The HARE PCL:YV Manual provides information on:

• Development of the HARE PCL:YV
• Theoretical Perspectives on Psychopathy and Measurement Issues
• Administration
• Scoring
• Interpretation
• Item Descriptions
• Descriptive Statistics
• Validity
• Reliability