The measurement of psychosocial functioning following traumatic brain injury has received very little attention, despite the fact that it has important applications in a variety of clinical, medico-legal and theoretical contexts. In the absence of well validated, standardised measures of psychosocialf unctioning, clinicians and researchersin this field have tendedt o employ measures which are designed for use in non-brain injury populations. The Katz Adjustment Scale (KAS-R; Katz & Lyerly, 1963) is one measure which has been widely used in brain injury studies despite the fact that it has questionable validity when applied to brain injury populations. In an attempt to resolve this problem, Jackson, Hopewell, Glass, Warburg, Dewey & Ghadiali (1992) conducted an exploratory factor analysis of a modified version of the KAS-R using a mixed sample of individuals who had a traumatic brain injury and\or spinal cord injury. The present study is an attempt to confirm the validity of the factors obtained by Jackson et al and where necessary revise the factor structure of the modified KAS-R. r1be present study represents a significant advance upon the work of Jackson et al in that it employs confirmatory factor analysis techniques and is based upon a new sample consisting solely of brain injured individuals. The results of this study provide support for the validity of the main first-order factors obtained by Jackson et al., and a number of post hoc modifications were made which appear to represent improvements upon the Jackson et al factors in terms of their relevance to brain injury. Preliminary analyses indicate that the modified factors may discriminate between different groups of brain injured individuals. Recommendations are made re further revision and validation of the KAS-R sub-scales and the potential research applications of the scales are discussed.

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The problem of this study was to specify personality changes of children during their first five months of residence in an institutional home and school, as measured by the California Test of Personality.

This paper addresses the question of whether individual delinquent behaviour, or criminogenic risks that lead to it, can be reduced for convicted violence offenders with personality disorder, using the newly developed offence-oriented therapeutic program TERČ ("TARGET"). If so, how will these changes manifest in the recidivism rate, and how they will reflect the personality characteristics of inmates. TARGET was first systematically applied within a special treatment unit for prisoners with mental and behavioral disorders in Liberec Remand Prison in 2008. It is based on selected elements of the Ambulant intensive program (AIP) from Switzerland. A total of 100 convicts were entered TARGET from 2008 to 2015. 65 individuals completed the program successfully, and 57 were released again. The already released graduates of TARGET re-offended within 12 months in 10.4%. Of all admitted TARGET participants, a total of 30.2% either relapsed or failed during the program since 2009. Graduates showed positive, statistically significant changes in the monitored areas of life satisfaction, emotional stability, insight, self-control and aggression, while on scales representing personality disorder no positive, statistically significant effect was observed. For later re-offending prisoners, the changes were...