Attitudes/Orientation
Assess this item with
reference to the youth’s most recent past. Most
often questions should be assessed on the last 6 to 12 month time period.
- Antisocial/pro-criminal
attitudes: Check
this item if the youth’s attitudes are supportive of a criminal or anti-conventional
lifestyle. Consider
attitudes, values, beliefs and rationalizations concerning the crime,
the victim, etc. Also
look for thinking errors like rationalization, minimalization,
blaming the victim, etc.
- Not
seeking help: Check
this item if the youth is not seeking help, is reluctant to seek or accept
needed help, or does not recognize the need for help.
- Actively
rejecting help: Check
this item if the youth is actively resisting the interventions of helping
persons or agencies.
- Defies
authority: Check
this item if the youth refuses to follow directions from parents, teachers
or other authority figures. The
presence of law violations alone does not warrant an automatic check.
Check if
this is a pattern of behavior with multiple persons in positions of authority.
- Callous;
little concern for others:
Check this
item if the youth shows little concern for the feelings or welfare of
others. Check this item if the youth behaves rather like a psychopath.
(03-2007)