PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Family Therapy, Learning Disability, Attribution Bias

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Adolescent problems not necessarily lifelong: trying something vs. developing a problem, problems may date from earlier childhood. Some data indicate that of adolescents commit at least one criminal act some time before the age of 20 the(cid:455)"re (cid:374)ot all future criminals. Ma(cid:374)(cid:455) tee(cid:374)s (cid:862)gro(cid:449) out(cid:863) of pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s: majority turn into law abiding citizens, ward et al. Those who turn into criminals had history of childhood problems. High rate offenders had been teens with family disruption or non-family care. Status offence: illegal for minors, not adults: truancy, running away, buying alcohol. Externalizing problem: directed outward, toward others; create difficulties in a perso(cid:374)"s exter(cid:374)al world: externalizing behaviours are negative, problematic behaviours that are directed toward others or things (e. g. aggression, drug use). Easily observable: under-controlled impulses, more common among boys/males, tend to go together, often motivated by desire for excitement, not necessarily underlying unhappiness or psychopathology, examples aggression, delinquency, antisocial behaviour (substance abuse)