Doc says children should be screened for psychopathic behaviour after 16-year-old murdered Alesha MacPhail, six
A DOCTOR is calling for young children to be screened for psychopathic behaviour after the killing of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail by a boy aged 16.Aaron Campbell's doctor calls for children to be screened for psychopathic behaviour after he killed six-year-old Alesha MacPhailAlesha MacPhail had suffered 117 injuries and died from significant pressure being applied to her face and neck
These can include not responding to boundaries, poor treatment of kids or animals and not showing emotion.Dr Marshall called it “a major public health issue”, adding: “You don’t become a psychopath on your 16th birthday.
"At the age of 16, such traits are already entrenched and chronic so it is time for policy to catch up with research, given the enormous social costs of psychopathy. "We have to deal with psychopathy trajectories in childhood head-on now to divert budding psychopaths and
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