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Rachel E. Kahn
Researcher at University of New Orleans
Publications - 41
Citations - 2408
Rachel E. Kahn is an academic researcher from University of New Orleans. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Recidivism. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1959 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel E. Kahn include Virginia Tech & Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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Can callous-unemotional traits enhance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of serious conduct problems in children and adolescents? A comprehensive review.
TL;DR: Although children and adolescents with both severe conduct problems and elevated CU traits tend to respond less positively to typical interventions provided in mental health and juvenile justice settings, they show positive responses to certain intensive interventions tailored to their unique emotional and cognitive characteristics.
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Annual research review: A developmental psychopathology approach to understanding callous-unemotional traits in children and adolescents with serious conduct problems.
TL;DR: Research on the normal development of the prosocial emotions of empathy and guilt is summarized and it is illustrated how the development of CU traits can be viewed as thenormal development of conscience gone awry.
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The effects of including a callous–unemotional specifier for the diagnosis of conduct disorder
Rachel E. Kahn,Paul J. Frick,Eric A. Youngstrom,Robert L. Findling,Jennifer Kogos Youngstrom +4 more
TL;DR: Results indicate between 10% and 50% of youth with CD would be designated with the proposed CU specifier, and those with CD and the specifier appear to be more severe on a number of indices, including aggression and cruelty.
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Distinguishing primary and secondary variants of callous-unemotional traits among adolescents in a clinic-referred sample.
Rachel E. Kahn,Paul J. Frick,Eric A. Youngstrom,Jennifer Kogos Youngstrom,Norah C. Feeny,Robert L. Findling,Robert L. Findling +6 more
TL;DR: The current study used model-based cluster analyses to determine if there are 2 distinct variants of adolescents high on callous-unemotional (CU) traits that differ on their level of anxiety and history of trauma.
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A Validation of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Community Sample of Young Adult Males
TL;DR: While results found the best fitting model to be the three-bifactor structure that has been previously reported in adolescent samples, the fit indices were only marginally acceptable and suggest the need for scale refinement.