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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Actively rejecting help:  Check this item if the youth is actively resisting the interventions of helping persons or agencies.  
4. 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.
5. 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)