lecture 4 Flashcards
What are antisocial behaviors?
violation of social mores and laws-deterimental to client and society-negative outcomes can range from mild social conflict to violent death. Cormorbidity in all disorders is common ASB common comorbid disorders are ADHD and depression
What is Juvenile Delinquency?
Legal term used to refer to children/adolescence that violate the law
What is ODD?
pattern of angry/irritable mood/argumentative/defiant behaviors lasting at least 6 months with at least 4 symptoms
What is CD?
3 out of 15 antil social behaviors within 12 months. The b/hrs are serious societal or legal infractions
What is child-onset trajectories of ASB?
Child who exhits ADHD, ODD< and CD in childhood-long history of ASB behaviors (bad prognosis and males 3:1)
What is Adolescent onset trajectory?
few conduct problems during childhood but b/g getting into trouble during adolescents. Usually stop anti-social behaviors in early adulthood.
What are some childhood predictors of ASB?
temperament (resist adult control, negative emotion, sensation seeking, low prosocial behaviors, impulsivity), ODD and ADHD, low cognitive skill and slow language development.
What are some adult outcomes of childhood odd and CD?
Criminal b/hrs, antisocial personality disorder, reduced education, substance dependence, early parenthood, dependence on welfare, dangerous driving, early death, depression
What are some risk factors of ASB
Gene-environment correlation (parents pass down gene for impulsivity and can be abusive parents b/c of gene); evocative/reactive (ODD b/hrs creat a hostile home environment) and active (seek out environments that are related to genetics find defiant peers)
What can a positive environment do
Interact with genes and lead to improved outcomes.
What are some environmental risk factors
birth weight and birth complications, teratogens, SES, parental and family characteristics, deviant pper influence, neighborhoods and urbanicity.
What are some neural mechanism predictors?
Low resting HR (predicts CD problems and related to stimulation seeking), Prefrontal cortices, anterior cingulate (impulse control, reward system and autonomic functions)
what are the 3 dispositions that have been found to be related to childhood conduct problems?
prosociality versus callousness, daring/sensation seeking versus fearful inhibition, emotional lability versus emotional stability.
what is prosociality versus callousness?
Prosocialilty children who care about interactions and positively impacted by the natural consequences. callous not as impacted by negative consequences and may engage in goal directed aggression. different reactions to consequences.
Daring/sensation seeking versus fearful inhibition
Daring children reinforced by idea of possibily getting into trouble