Though child psychopaths make great villains in fictional horror movies, the horrific mental disorder is very real.
From an article in QZ.com:
Two recent psychological studies have found ways of spotting whether young children are vulnerable of becoming psychopaths, suggesting that parents don’t have total control over their offspring’s callous or cruel behavior.
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales have found that some children as young as three years old display callous-unemotional traits (CU traits), which are linked to psychopathy. Children with these traits didn’t react strongly like other children in the study to images of people in distress, such as a child crying, and also struggled to recognize changing facial expressions.
“Until now we didn’t really have a way to identify those traits in very young children,” Eva Kimonis, the lead author of the study, which involved more than 200 children between the ages of three and six, told the Sydney Morning Herald. “This is really the first study which uses tools adapted for very young children and the sooner those children are identified, the earlier they can be helped.”
Meanwhile, a UK study of more than 200 infants by researchers from King’s College London, the University of Manchester, and the University of Liverpool, found that it’s possible to predict whether five-week-old babies will go on to develop CU traits. Infants who preferred to look at a human face, rather than an inanimate red ball, were less likely to develop CU traits as a toddler, according to the study published in Biological Psychiatry.
Though there’s evidence to suggest that psychopathy is influenced by genetics, researchers believe that parents could nurture their children in ways that could help them develop empathy.
The UK study found that if a mother responds more sensitively to her baby during playtime, the child is less likely to display callous unemotional behavior as a toddler. The University of New South Wales researchers also are trying to help parents find ways to develop their children’s emotional skills.
“There’s been a real shift toward trying to prescribe medication to these very young children, which is concerning because we don’t know how safe that is,” Kimonis told the Sydney paper. “We’re targeting the problem from a different angle and focusing on adapting parent management training programs that are known to be effective for other antisocial children. … We coach the parents how to be very warm, involved and loving with them to see if that reduces those callous traits over time.”
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Coercive science, medicating children against psychopathy is bizarre and cruel. Pharmaceutical companies pay for their own research so they get the result they want. Some parents will believe this trash. Children who turn into psychopaths have, themselves, been abused and lived/grew in abusive environments. Drugging a child will not prevent psychopathy but it will, no doubt, have other horrendous effects on him/her. Not everyone subjected to abusive environments turns into a psychopath. I think they only represent 10 percent (maybe lower) of mental patients. I dont mean depression when I say mental illness. I am speaking here of “severe and enduring mental illness” for which there is currently no cure. Sweden, however, did research some years ago and they achieved some success with reforming psychopaths but the research was dropped because it was lengthy and costly. The greater part of the damage is done in the child’s formative years when they become desensitised to violence. If they survive, they carry the blueprint for their future behaviour and that may not be violent but could manifest in other ways.
Pharma does NOT pay for their own research, at least not here in U.S. the TAXPAYERS pay for the research, which is always slanted and false and then they sell their pills by pushing this false science – with the taxpayers picking up 100% of the tab. Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your comment and you are spot on in your analysis. I wish more people understood psychopathy as well as you did. We might have less of it in our society.
… … and in paragraph 5 it claims “parents can help children develop empathy”. What they omitted is that parents/guardians can also help develop psychopathy. This is a very serious omission.
Sorsha: As a psychologist for 20 yrs, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Most psychopathic children, become that way due to parents not being very good at parenting. We have an epidemic of opioid addiction, alcoholism, addiction to other drugs, and a very sick society – all of which help kids to become more psychopathic, especially with our horrendous education system. We treat small children like criminals in a prison, with police at schools beating up kids, shaming them, etc. Psychopaths can also come from being sick with things like scarlet fever and leaving lesions on the brain. This is what happened to Stalin. And some can be born that way, but I think it mostly comes from parents who are either psychopaths themselves or close to it.
the government knows how to make sociopaths. They are doing it today with orphans.