PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Major Depressive Disorder, Truancy, Psychopathology

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

Document Summary

2010 those who turn into criminals as adults had problem behaviours in their childhood as well as adolescent years: high rate offenders had been teens with family disruption or non-family care, such as a foster home. Externalizing and internalizing problems: externalizing problem: turn their difficulties outward, toward the external world. Aggression, delinquency, and antisocial behaviour are directed toward others: undercontrolled impulses, more common among boys. Internalizing primarily affect a person"s internal world: more common in females, associated with experiencing distress, overcontrolled (some refer to as) Delinquency: legal term that can refer to a wide variety of actions. Index crimes categories of serious violations: violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, arson, canadian youth crime declining, theft under is the most common type of youth crime. Private homes are the most common site, with commercial areas and public spaces as close to second.