9u30 - 10u30 & 11u - 12u

Workshop 1: Psychopathy in females

Vivienne de Vogel

Workshop 2: Psychopathic traits in offenders with intellectual disabilities: implications for assessment and therapy

Catrin Morrissey & Jon Taylor

Workshop 3: Treatment of Conduct Disorder and Interpersonal Callousness

Randy Salekin

Workshop 4: Psychopathic traits in family members: the hidden suffering of partners and children 

Kasia Uzieblo 

Workshop 5: Violence Reduction Treatment of Psychopathic Offenders:  Treatment Model, Programme and Outcome Evaluation

Stephen Wong

12u - 13u

Sandwiches, refreshments and interesting posters

13u - 14u

By Evelyn Klein Haneveld

Although in the past 20 years research on psychopathy has increased dramatically, studies dealing with its treatment are quite rare and findings are mixed. Clinicians are still left with very few guidelines as to how to treat psychopathic patients. In the Van der Hoeven Kliniek, a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands, approximately 25% of the patients score high on the Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (Hare, 2003). We have attempted to implement a program for these patients, inspired as much as possible by what is known to be effective for seriously violent offenders in general. The What Works principles as described by Andrews and Bonta (2010) constitute the central framework for the program. This presentation will describe how we incorporate these principles in clinical practice and will illustrate this with case examples of our failures and successes. Preliminary results on treatment outcome will also be presented.

14u - 15u

By David P. Bernstein

Schema Therapy (ST; Young et al., 2003) is an integrative form of psychotherapy for personality disorders that has shown good evidence of effectiveness in Borderline Personality Disorder (Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006; Nadort et al., 2009) and Cluster C Personality Disorders (Bamelis et al., 2014). Bernstein and colleagues (Bernstein et al., 2007) adapted ST for forensic patients with Cluster B personality disorders, including psychopathic patients, a group that is often considered untreatable. Preliminary evidence from a large, multicenter randomized clinical trial in the Netherlands (N =103) suggests that ST is outperforming usual forensic treatment in this difficult to treat group (Bernstein et al., 2012). In this presentation, Prof. Bernstein will report on the latest findings from this study, which will be completed in 2015, and discuss recent empirical support for the theoretical model on which this approach to forensic treatment is based (de Vos et al., 2014).  

15u00 - 15u30

Lots of coffee and other refreshments.

15u30 - 16u30

By Eva Kimonis

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in youth are believed to be a developmental antecedent to psychopathy and in the presence of co-occurring conduct problems (CP) they signal a severe, stable and aggressive trajectory of antisocial behavior. Decades of research are devoted to understanding how CU traits develop among youth but knowledge is limited on how best to treat this population. Converging evidence suggests that CU traits are amenable to psychosocial interventions, however, conduct problem outcomes respond more poorly to gold-standard parent training interventions when co-occurring CU traits are present. These findings suggest a critical need to develop novel interventions that target the unique deficits of CP+CU youth. Dr. Kimonis presents her program of clinical research focused on translating basic science findings into developing an individualized intervention for CP+CU children, delivered through the platform of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). PCIT was adapted by enhancing the affective quality of the parent-child relationship to improve conscience development, emphasizing reward-based parenting strategies to counter punishment insensitivity, and using empirically-supported strategies to provide children with emotional skills training to address emotional deficits. Pilot findings support the promise of PCIT-CU for improving antisocial behaviors of CP+CU children, and challenge the long history of psychotherapeutic pessimism in the psychopathy field.

16u30 - 17u

By Scott Lilienfeld & Joseph Newman

Food for thought regarding the future of management and treatment of psychopathic individuals.