Randall T. Salekin
Professor
​Director of Graduate Studies

Primary Concentration:

Clinical Child Psychology

Contact Information:

Office: 352c Gordon Palmer
Phone: (205) 348-5083
FAX: (205) 348-8648
E-Mail: rsalekin@ua.edu

Website: ​salekinlab.ua.edu

Secondary Concentration:

Psychology-Law Developmental Science

Courses:

Introduction to Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Advanced Child Practicum
Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychology
Conduct Disorder (writing course)

Research Affiliations

Psychopathy and Conduct Disorder Research Group
Disruptive Behavior Clinic (DBC), Director
Center for the Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems

Research Interests

Conduct Disorder
Psychopathy
Grandiose-Manipulative [GM] traits 
Callous Unemotional [CU] traits
Daring-Impulsive [DI] traits
Etiology of Conduct Disorder and psychopathic traits 
Treatment of Conduct Disorder and psychopathic traits

Recent Selected Publications

  • Salekin, R. T. (2024). Conduct disorder and its 70-year history: Lessons from Hervey Cleckley and Lee Robins. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, xx, xxx-xxx.
  • Salekin, R. T. (2022). Some critical comments on the Frick (2022) paper titled “Some critical considerations in applying the construct of psychopathy to research and classification of childhood disruptive behavior disorders.” Clinical Psychology Review, 98, 1-4. http://dx.doi.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102214 
  • Salekin, R. T., López-Romero, L., Grant, J. C., Batky, B. D., Uzieblo, K., & Colins, O. F. (2024). Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) self-report: Factor structure and validation in a community sample of Belgian youth. Personality and Mental Health, xx, xxx-xxx.
  • Neumann, C. S., Salekin, R. T., Commerce, E., Charles, N., Barry, C. T., Mendez, B., & Hare, R. D. (2024). Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) scale: A latent profile analysis with at-risk adolescents. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, xx, xxx-xxx.
  • Bellamy, N. A., Neumann, C. S., Mendez, B., Batky, B. D., DeGroot, H., Hare, R. D., & Salekin, R. T. (2024). Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): Further validation of the parent-report version in a nationally representative U.S. sample of 10- to 17-year olds. Psychological Assessment.
  • Grossi, G., Strappini, F., Luliano, E., Passiaore, Y. Mancini, F., Levantini, V., Masi, G., Milone, A., Santaguida, E., Salekin, R. T., Muratori, P., & Buonanno, C. (2023). Linking psychopathic traits to externalizing problems and prosocial behavior: The role of social dominance orientation. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12, 3521. 
  • Salekin, R. T. (2016). Psychopathy in childhood: Why should we care about grandiose-manipulative and daring-impulsive traits? British Journal of Psychiatry.
  • Salekin, R. T. (2016). Psychopathy in childhood: Toward better informing the DSM-5 and ICD-11 conduct disorder specifiers. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7, 180-191.
  • Watts, A. L., Salekin, R. T., Harrison, N., Clark, A. P., Waldman, I. D., Vitacco, M. J., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2016). Psychopathy: Relations with three conceptions of intelligence. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7, 269-279. 
  • Salekin,R. T. (2015). Forensic evaluation and treatment of juveniles: Innovation and best practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Salekin, R. T., Tippey, J. G., & Allen, A. D. (2012). Treatment of conduct problem youth with interpersonal callous traits using mental models: measurement of risk and change. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 30, 470-486.