Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anti-Social Behaviour

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St.Pierre

Document Summary

Conduct problems & antisocial behaviors: age-inappropriate actions and attitudes of a child that violate family expectations, societal norms, and the personal or property rights to others: typically grow up in unfortunate family conditions/neighbourhood circumstances. Important features of antisocial behavior: vary in severity, some antisocial behaviors decrease with age while others increase, more common in boys than girls in childhood, levels into adolescence. Conduct problems make it the most costly mental health problem in north. Early, persistent and extreme pattern of antisocial behavior occurs in only about. 5% of children: accounts for over 50% of all crime in u. s. 20% of all mental health $ attributed to crime: ,000 public cost / child with conduct problems, lifetime = 2 million $ Legal: juvenile delinquency: children who have broken a law, mental health definition = display persistent pattern of antisocial behavior. Psychological: externalizing behavior: mixture of impulsive, overactive, aggressive.