Conduct Problems

Question 1

Adolescent-limited (AL) path

Answer 1

Youths whose antisocial behavior begins in puberty and continues into adolescence, but later cease these behaviors during young adulthood

Question 2

adolescent-onset conduct disorder

Answer 2

does not display symptoms before age 10

Question 3

childhood-onset conduct disorder

Answer 3

Indivs show at least one symptom prior to age 10

Question 4

Conduct problems/Antisocial behavior

Answer 4

terms used to describe a wide range of age inappropriate actions and attitudes of a child that violate family expectations, societal norms, and the personal or property rights of others

Question 5

Juvenile delinquency

Answer 5

Describes children who have broken a law, ranging from sneaking into a movie to homicide.

Question 6

Externalizing behavior

Answer 6

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Question 7

Overt-covert dimension

Answer 7

Ranges from overt visible acts such as fighting to covert hidden acts such as lying or stealing

Question 8

Destructive-nondestructive dimension

Answer 8

ranges from acts such as physical cruelty to animals or physical assault to nondestructive behaviors such as arguing or irritability

Question 9

Disruptive behavior disorders

Answer 9

ODD or CD

Question 10

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

Answer 10

display of age-inappropriate recurrent pattern of stubborn, hostile, disobedient, and defiant behaviors.

Question 11

Conduct disorder

Answer 11

display a repetitive and persistent pattern of severely aggressive and antisocial acts that involve inflicting pain on other or interfering with the rights of others through physical and verbal aggression , stealing or vandalism.

Question 12

Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 12

A pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others, including repeated illegal behaviors, deceitfulness, failure to plan ahead, repeated physical assaults, reckless disregard for safety of others or self, repeated failure to sustain work behavior or honor financial obligations, and a lack of remorse

Question 13

Psychopathic features

Answer 13

a pattern of callous, manipulative, deceitful, and remorseless behavior- the more menacing side of human nature

Question 14

Callous and unemotional (CU) interpersonal style

Answer 14

characterized by absence of guilt, lack of empathy, uncaring attitudes, shallow or deficient emotional responses and related traits of narcissism and impulsivity

Question 15

Hostile attribution bias

Answer 15

more likely to attribute hostile and mean-spirited intent to other children, especially when the intentions of others are unclear

Question 16

Relational aggression

Answer 16

Things such as verbal insults, gossip, tattling, ostracism, threatening to withdraw one’s friendship, getting even, or third party retaliation rather than physical forms of aggression.

Question 17

Life-course persistent (LCP) path

Answer 17

Children who engage in aggression and antisocial behavior at an early age and continue to do so into adulthood

Question 18

Behavioral activation system (BAS)

Answer 18

stimulates behavior in response to signals of reward or non-punishment

Question 19

Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)

Answer 19

Produces anxiety and inhibits ongoing behavior in the presence of novel events, innate fear stimuli, and signals of nonreward or punishment

Question 20

Social-cognitive abilities

Answer 20

the skills involved in attending to, interpreting, and responding to social cues

Question 21

Coercion theory

Answer 21

contends that parent-child interactions provide a training ground for the development of antisocial behavior

Question 22

Reciprocal influence

Answer 22

the child’s behavior is both influenced by and influences the behavior of others

Question 23

Social selection hypothesis

Answer 23

States that people who move into different neighborhoods differ from one another before they arrive, and those who remain differ from those who leave

Question 24

Parent management training (PMT)

Answer 24

Teaches parents to change their child’s behavior at home and in other settings

Question 25

Problem-solving skills training (PSST)

Answer 25

A form of cognitive behavioral therapy that focuses on the cognitive deficiencies and distortions displayed by children and adolescents with conduct problems in interpersonal situations

Question 26

Multi systemic therapy (MST)

Answer 26

An intensive empirically supported family and community-based treatment for adolescents with severe conduct problems that make out-of-home placement highly likely

Question 27

Amplifier hypothesis

Answer 27

States that stress amplifies the maladaptive predispositions of parents, thereby disrupting family management practices and compromising parents ability to be supportive of their children

Question 28

Bullying

Answer 28

Occurs when one or more children intentionally and repeatedly expose another child, who cannot readily defend himself, to negative actions

Question 29

With limited prosocial emotions

Answer 29

youth with CD who display a persistent and typical pattern of interpersonal and emotional functioning involving at least two of the following three characteristics:

• lack of remorse or guilt
• callous-lack of empathy
• unconcerned about performance