PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Grade Retention, Executive Functions, Externalizing Disorders
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Conduct problems: legal: conduct problems are defined as delinquent or criminal acts. Juvenile delinquency: describes children who have broken a law, ranging from sneaking into a movie without paying to homicide. Delinquent acts include property crimes and violent crimes. Only a subgroup of youths who meet a legal definition of delinquency will also meet the definition for a mental disorder: psychological: conduct problems fall along a continuous dimension of externalizing behavior. Look at categories of conduct problems: psychiatric: conduct problems are defined as distinct mental disorders based on. Disruptive behavior disorders: include odd and cd. Note: both the psychiatric and the psychological perspectives provide valuable information about conduct disorders: public health: this perspective on conduct disorders blends the legal, psychological, and psychiatric perspectives with public health concepts of prevention and intervention. Associated problems of cd: depressed iq and verbal ability: Score nearly 8 points lower than peers on iq tests.
