Callous Unemotional Traits Flashcards
(25 cards)
What are callous-unemotional traits?
Subtyping conduct problems in children
Four affective factors of psychopathy?
Callous/lacks empathy for others
Lacks remorse or guilt
Fails to accept responsibilty for own actions
Shallow affect
Five CU traits?
Unconcerned about feelings of others (Frick et al, 2000) Doesn't feel bad or guilty Unconcerned re school work Fails to keep promises Doesn't keep the same friends
Five similarites between CU traits /psychopathy in adulthood?
Children with CU show more serious offending
A particularly violent form of criminal behaviour
More likely to recidivate
Poor treatment progress
RElated to emotional processing deficits
What does conduct problesm adn CU traits lead to?
More serious anti-social beahviour
6 points on conduct problems + CU traits – severe AB
genetic
Preferene for dangerous, novel and exciting activities
REward-dominant
Emphasis positive aspects of aggression
LEss distressed by their imapct on others
Reduced emotioanl reactivity
Conduct problems - CU - 7 points:
Higher rating of ADHD
LEss agressive - more reacitve forms of aggression
Intellectual deficits
Ineffective parenting practices - poor monitoring, supervision and use of harsh/inconsisent discipline
More anxiety - more reactive to distress of others
Emotion regulation problems
REactive to negative emotional stimuli
What did Munos and Frick (2007) show?
Stable conduct problems = due to callous-unemotional traits combined with narcissism/impulsivity
How did Cleckley’s (1976) clinical description of psychopaths describe them?
As above-average intelligence
What did Salakin et al (2004) show psycopaths to have?
unimpaired cognitive abilities
What did Moffit and Henry (1991) say
Youths with low verbal ability = more likely to engage in delinquency
Munoz et al, 2008
Verbal abilty = protective but only for some
What may intact verbal ability be a marker for>
Well-functioning emotional processing system
What did Kimonis et al, 2007 show?
pro-actively agressive youth with CU show a deficit in processing affective information
Munos et al?
Youths high on narcissism appear to preocess affective information differnet from youths high on CU
3 signs from Sympathetic nervous system>
increase of heart rate
Constricts blood vessels
Increases sweating
2 signs of para-sympthetic nervous system?
decreases heart rate
Dilates blood vessels
Talk about pro-active aggression (3 points)
‘cold-blooded’
Tend to emphasise positive aspects of aggression
Associated wtih criminality in adolescence and adulthood
Talk about reactive aggression (5 points)
'hot-headed' Thoughts that people's actions = hostile Impulsive Emotional dysregulation Associated with provocation
What did Munoz et al 2008 show ?
HIghly aggresssive youth with CU traits show a disconnet between behaviour and physiology
The disconnect betewen expression of anger and experience of anger was supported in teh small group with CU traits
Three psychopathic traits in youths?
fearless
Thrill-seeking
uninhibited temperament
Role of emotions in growing up?
Fearful child – socialisation adults – empathy
What happens when a child experiences punishment?
A rise in anxiety/arousal when experiencing a punihsment from parents shows that the child experiences punihsmnet as a negative thing
What can be done to help conduct problems + CU?
Earlier interventions
Not parent disclipline techniques but parent-child relationsihp quality
Not emotion
Probably not empathy- could possibly hurt
Yes - teach ing parents to reinforce/reward pro social beahiouvrs
Maybe can change their views about the way to get what they want - CBT works well
