Screening for personality disorder in incarcerated adolescent boys: preliminary validation of an adolescent version of the standardised assessment of personality - abbreviated scale (SAPAS-AV)

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kongerslev, Mickey ^a,b   Moran, Paul ^c   Bo, Sune ^b   Simonsen, Erik ^b  

^a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*  (Denmark)

^b Psychiatric Research Unit   (Denmark)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aggression; Juvenile offenders; Personality assessment; Personality disorder; Psychiatric epidemiology; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDISED ASSESSMENT PERSONALITY ABBREVIATED SCALE; VALIDITY; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; NARCISSISM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCREENING; STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY ABBREVIATED SCALE; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864372357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-94     Document Type: Article

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