The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START: AV, Viljoen, Nicholls, Cruise, Desmarais, & Webster, 2014) provides a structural professional judgement on the risk of adverse outcomes related to harm to others and rule violations. The advantage of START: AV is in that it includes the assessment of both strengths and vulnerabilities. As it is a relatively new assessment tool, the questions related to psychometric properties of the measure are still topical, especially in intercultural context. The reliability and convergent validity of START: AV ratings were examined in a sample of 159 male juveniles (M age = 16.97, SD = 0.81) on probation. Information about the psychosocial functioning of the minors was collected during the interviews with probation officers and rated by the researchers according to the START: AV User Guide. The Subtypes of Antisocial Behaviour (STAB; Burt & Donnellan, 2009), the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM; Patrick, 2010), and the Criminal Sentiments Scale-Modified (CSS-M; Shields & Simourd, 1991) were used as convergent measures in this study. The results provided evidence for the reliability of the START: AV ratings and associations between behavioural variables, psychopathy constructs and START: AV are in favour of its concurrent validity. Pro-criminal attitudes were not associated with START: AV ratings, and further research is needed to test the manifestation of pro-criminal attitudes among juvenile offenders on probation. These findings support for further testing the START: AV on its predictive validity as well as utility in work with juvenile offenders.

The current study aimed to evaluate the convergent and predictive validity of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM;Patrick, 2010) in a sample of 159 Lithuanian juvenile offenders, who were sentenced to probation, from most probation departments across Lithuania. TriPM scale scores were evaluated against various self-report questionnaires, measuring history of delinquent behavior, procriminal attitudes, and the ability to manage stressors. Such scores were also validated against adverse outcomes, including risk evaluation through structured professional judgment risk assessment. In terms of predictive validity, TriPM scores predicted outcomes related to juvenile offenders' misconduct after a 3-month follow-up period. The TriPM scale scores were associated with concurrent measures in an expected direction, with the effect sizes ranging from small to large. The area-under-the-curve results for several forms of misconduct in a 3-month follow-up period confirmed predictive validity of the TriPM scales. These findings are discussed in the context of forensic and correctional implications for TriPM research.

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Santrauka. Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas kognityvinės-elgesio korekcinės programos EQUIP poveikis Lietuvos vaikų socializacijos centrų auklėtinių kognityviniams iškraipymams, socialiniams įgūdžiams ir probleminiam elgesiui. Atliktas kiekybinis tyrimas, kuriame dalyvavo 124 11-17 m. amžiaus VSc auklėtiniai (74 vaikinai ir 50 merginų). Tyrimo metu buvo lyginami EQUIP ir Palyginamosios grupės duomenys prieš ir po EQUIP programos vykdymo, naudotas mąstymo klaidų klausimynas HIT, socialinių įgūdžių vertinimo metodika bei demografinė anketa. Atlikto tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė reikšmingus EQUIP programoje dalyvavusių VSc auklėtinių mąstymo klaidų, elgesio problemų ir socialinių įgūdžių pokyčius, tuo tarpu VSc auklėtinių, nedalyvavusių korekcinėje programoje, kintamųjų pokyčių nenustatyta arba jie nėra statistiškai reikšmingi. Analizė patvirtino, kad EQUIP programos dalyvių amžius bei programos vykdymo intensyvumas yra svarbios sąlygos siekiant didesnio EQUIP programos poveikio.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: kognityvinė-elgesio korekcinė programa EQUIP, vaikų socia lizacijos centras, mąstymo klaidos, socialiniai įgūdžiai, probleminis elgesys. ĮVADAS netylant diskusijoms, kaip organizuoti pagalbą delinkventiškiems paaugliams, kad nepageidaujamas jų elgesys mažėtų, o jaunuoliai galėtų įsilieti į visuomenę bei kurti tolesnį gyvenimą nežalodami savęs ir kitų, labai svarbu