PSY 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conduct Disorder, Natural Disaster, Harm Avoidance
Document Summary
Personality impact: personality can increase risk of abuse, conduct disorder, behavioural and temperamental traits, surface as early as 5 yrs old, vulnerable characteristics, impulsivity, add, difficult. Iq, academic underachievement, negative affect, difficulties with emotional regulation, social incompetence, aggression temperament, below average: clustered in children from dysfunctional families. Critical stage: 12-13 yrs is critical period, critical change in psychology, biology and sociology, caught between security of childhood and stress, expectations and responsibilities of adulthood. Risk factors: no single profile exists, differ by personality, family history, socioeconomic status, life experiences, 3 areas of risk factors, biological, family, environmental. Individual/biology: antisocial & other behavioural problems, alienation, high tolerance for deviance and strong need for independence, psychopathology, attitudes favourable to drug use, high risk personality factors, sensation seeking, low harm avoidance, poor impulse control. Family factors: parental substance use & modeling, poor family management and parenting practice, poor parent-child relationships, family conflict, physical and sexual abuse.
