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Resumen: La psicopatía es un constructo clínico-forense, válido y fi able que ha venido siendo estudiado empíricamente en contextos clínicos, jurídico-forenses y subclínicos. Este artículo analiza el perfi l actual de la psicopatía y sus notables distinciones con las psicopatologías o trastornos mentales. El conocimiento sobre las concepciones históricas y las perspectivas categorial versus dimensional de la psicopatía ponen de relieve que este constructo ha venido siendo relacionado con conductas antisociales, delitos y trastornos mentales. Las relaciones entre la psicopatía y estos diversos tópicos han sido objeto de enconados debates teóricos, los cuales han sido disipados a través de numerosas investigaciones empíricas. Este artículo subraya los principales matices al respecto, y se describen algunas sugerencias con objeto de que clínicos, forenses e investigadores traten de confl uir en aspectos polémicos ya resueltos al referirse tanto a la psicopatía, en singular, como a las diversas psicopatologías, en plural.Palabras clave: Psicopatía; psicopatología; perspectiva categorial; perspectiva dimensional; conducta antisocial/delictiva. Psychopathy and psychopathologies: Can psychopathy be conceptualized as a mental disorder?Abstract: Psychopathy is a clinical-forensic, reliable, and valid construct that has been most studied empirically in clinical, legal-forensic, and subclinical contexts. This article examines the current profi le of psychopathy and its remarkable distinctions with psychopathologies or mental disorders. Knowledge about historical conceptions and categorical versus dimensional perspectives of psychopathy, emphasizes that this construct has come to be associated with antisocial behavior, crime, and mental disorders. The links between psychopathy and these concepts have been the subject of fervent theoretical debates, which have been cleared up by several empirical studies. This article highlights the main nuances, and some suggestions are given in order for clinicians, forensics, and researchers to converge as to controversial issues which are already resolved in relation to psychopathy, in a singular mode, and to the various psychopathologies, in a plural mode.Keywords: Psychopathy; psychopathology; categorical perspective; dimensional perspective; antisocial/criminal behavior. IntroducciónEl estudio de la psicopatía ha venido estando circunscrito, de manera mayoritaria, tanto a contextos forenses -prisiones y juzgados-como a contextos clíni-cos (Hare y Neumann, 2009). No obstante, hace ya más de dos décadas que este constructo también viene siendo actualmente estudiado en contextos subclínicos, es decir, en la población general (Benning, Patrick, Blonigen, Hicks y Iacono, 2005;Hall y Benning, 2006), y en ámbitos tan diversos como la política, las empresas, el trabajo, (Babiak, 2007;Boody, 2013;Cleckley, 1941;Garrido, 2000;Hare, 1993) y la pareja (Pozueco, Moreno, Blázquez y García-Baamonde, 2014; Savard, Brassard, Lussier y Sabourin, 2015). En cualquier caso, ya sea estudiada la psicopatía ...

This research analyses the level of psychosocial adaptation of young victims of physical neglect who are under care orders for their protection and in residential care centres. The aim was to determine the relationships between the different levels of competence and/or functioning in the various areas of adaptation. Young people between the ages of 12 and 14 years participated in the study. The instruments used to evaluate their psychosocial adaptation were the Inventory of Behavioural Adaptation and the Multifactorial Self‐evaluation Child Adaptation Test. The results indicate that young people suffering from physical neglect have difficulties in various areas of psychosocial adaptation. There is evidence of greater problems in the personal, social and school context than in the family context. The study stresses the importance of programmes applied in residential care centres and individualised educational treatments for the psychosocial adjustment of these young people, while also taking into account the personal, social and family circumstances that surround them. Key Practitioner Messages This research analyses psychosocial adaptation of young victims of physical neglect under care orders or institutionalised in residential care centres. The sample was made up of young people institutionalised in residential care centres. Results point to difficulties in various areas of psychosocial adaptation. There is evidence of greater problems in the personal, social and school context than in the family context. The study stresses the importance of the programmes applied in the residential care centres.

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