Utilidad del pcl-r como instrumento de evaluación en pacientes con trastornos mentales

Abstract

Introduction: Psychopathy could be understood within individuals who maintain an average or superior intellectual capacity, but who present persistent criminal behavior, where there is no respect for legal, social or moral norms, but who has the capacity to engage in an emotional or social relationship with others. In the legal and forensic field, psychopathy is characterized as the individual who breaks the law or established norms in a geographic region. Objective: To establish the usefulness of the PCL - R in patients with mental disorders, through the analysis of articles of high impact in health, with the purpose of its applicability in the clinical - psychiatric field. Methodology: A descriptive study based on a systematic literature review of different scientific articles of evidence-based medicine, from multiple digital repositories of high impact in health (Scopus, Pubmed, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, Cochrane) of the last 5 years in progress, and literature on legal and forensic medicine. Conclusion: The PCL-R is a test that is applied to the individual to be investigated with a tendency to psychopathic personality, which allows evaluating the clinical and forensic conditions of psychopathy, in relation to social deviance disorders, assessing the personality of the individual. In Ecuador, this test should be applied to the subjects of the penitentiary system; to establish their behavior or psychopathic personality, and to be able to apply appropriate judicial and health regulations for this population and to have an integral recovery of quality of the individuals of the national penitentiary system.