PSYCH 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Enuresis
13 Apr 2017
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Often break rules, are angry and aggressive, impulsive, overactive, and inattentive. Many symptoms involve violations of age-appropriate social rules, including disobeying parents or teachers, annoying peers, or breaking the law. Far greater concern when it is frequent, intense, lasting, pervasive. More problematic when part of a syndrome than a symptom alone. Children of different ages likely to violate different rules. Those with externalizing problems violate rules at a younger age than is developmentally normal. Adolescent limited: ends along with teen years. Life-course persistent: antisocial behavior that continues into adult life. Problems occurring before adolescence are more likely to persist into adult life (before age 12) Lifelong pattern of indifference to the suffering of others. May help predict future aspd when externalizing disorders are absent, but not when they are already present. Motivation key to relational aggression: actions designed to hurt others in more subtle ways. More common among girls, but add little to diagnosis of conduct disorder.
