Conduct Problems Flashcards
Adolescent-limited (AL) path
Youths whose antisocial behavior begins in puberty and continues into adolescence, but later cease these behaviors during young adulthood
adolescent-onset conduct disorder
does not display symptoms before age 10
childhood-onset conduct disorder
Indivs show at least one symptom prior to age 10
Conduct problems/Antisocial behavior
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
Juvenile delinquency
Describes children who have broken a law, ranging from sneaking into a movie to homicide.
Externalizing behavior
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Overt-covert dimension
Ranges from overt visible acts such as fighting to covert hidden acts such as lying or stealing
Destructive-nondestructive dimension
ranges from acts such as physical cruelty to animals or physical assault to nondestructive behaviors such as arguing or irritability
Disruptive behavior disorders
ODD or CD
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
display of age-inappropriate recurrent pattern of stubborn, hostile, disobedient, and defiant behaviors.
Conduct disorder
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.
Antisocial personality disorder
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
Psychopathic features
a pattern of callous, manipulative, deceitful, and remorseless behavior- the more menacing side of human nature
Callous and unemotional (CU) interpersonal style
characterized by absence of guilt, lack of empathy, uncaring attitudes, shallow or deficient emotional responses and related traits of narcissism and impulsivity
Hostile attribution bias
more likely to attribute hostile and mean-spirited intent to other children, especially when the intentions of others are unclear
Relational aggression
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.
Life-course persistent (LCP) path
Children who engage in aggression and antisocial behavior at an early age and continue to do so into adulthood
Behavioral activation system (BAS)
stimulates behavior in response to signals of reward or non-punishment
Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
Produces anxiety and inhibits ongoing behavior in the presence of novel events, innate fear stimuli, and signals of nonreward or punishment
Social-cognitive abilities
the skills involved in attending to, interpreting, and responding to social cues
Coercion theory
contends that parent-child interactions provide a training ground for the development of antisocial behavior
Reciprocal influence
the child’s behavior is both influenced by and influences the behavior of others
Social selection hypothesis
States that people who move into different neighborhoods differ from one another before they arrive, and those who remain differ from those who leave
Parent management training (PMT)
Teaches parents to change their child’s behavior at home and in other settings
