Disruptive Behaviour Disorders Flashcards
What are disruptive behaviours?
Disruptive behaviour is associated with difficulties in self-regulation of emotions and behaviour which can lead to the violation of others rights. Such as defiance, aggression, anti-social behaviour, and social maladjustment.
What are explanations for behaviour?
- Genetics
- Temperament
- Deficits in executive functions
- Cognitive distortions
- Learned behaviour; societal models of aggression
- Immediate family environment
- Underactive Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS) - The BIS is a system produces anxiety in new situations that motivates human behaviour to avoid punishment
- Overactive Behavioural Activation System (BAS) The BAS is system that motivates human behaviour to respond to signals of reward
what is Covert behaviour?
less social, more anxious, and more suspicious of others
What is Overt behaviour?
negative, irritable, and resentful in their reactions to hostile situations
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)?
Children who display an age-inappropriate recurrent pattern of stubborn, hostile, and defiant behaviors
What is the DSM-V criteria of ODD?
- Symptoms must occur 1/wk for at least 6 months
- Symptoms grouped into 3 categories:
1. Angry/Irritable Mood
2. Argumentative/Defiant Behaviour
3. Vindictiveness - Present at least 4 symptoms from any of the categories
- Ratings of: mild, moderate, severe
What are developmental factors of ODD?
- Temperament
- Difficulty with parental separation when younger
- Developmental issues/delays in early years
- Lack of positive attachment
What are learned factors of ODD?
- Excessive negative reinforcement from parent/caregiver…leads to a pattern of seeking this out to gain attention, care and concern.
- Permissive parenting resulting in constant fulfilling of demands
What are environmental factors of ODD?
- Permissive parenting, when a parent too often and too easily gives in to the child’s demands
- Significant stress or a lack of predictable structure in the home or community environment
What are specific risk factors of ODD?
- Abnormalities in prefrontal cortex
- Negative and inflexible temperament
- Child abuse and neglect; caregivers with similar temperament; lack of empathy
- Ineffective, inconsistent, punitive parenting
- Negative influence of peer group
- Community: high crime, low pro-social activities
Youth with ODD
- May have difficulties with peers but more often behaviour is directed toward authority figures
- Have a very low frustration tolerance
- Have a compulsion to obstruct the rules
- Deliberately test the limits
What is conduct disorder (CD)?
Children who display severe aggressive and antisocial acts involving inflicting pain on others or interfering with others’ rights.
What are the DSM-V criteria for CD?
-Persistent pattern of behaviour
-Aggression to people and animals
-Destruction of property
-Serious violation of rules
-Deceitfulness or theft/Lack of conscience
-The disturbance in behaviour causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
What are the limited prosocial emotions?
-Lack of remorse or guilt
-Callous—lack of empathy
-Unconcerned about performance
-Shallow or deficient affect
What are causes and contributing factors CD?
-Neurological disorder/damage
-A traumatic event/persistent trauma
-Genes
-Child abuse
-Past school failure
-Social problems
-Disadvantaged and maladaptive family and home factors can contribute
