PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Externalizing Disorders, Conduct Disorder, Mental Disorder
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Home work assignment: address both issues of becoming more sympathetic and preventing aggressive behavior. 3 advices of what they should do and 3 advices on what they should not do. Conduct disorder: max and moritz wilhelm busch, 1865. Describes misbehavior of children with mental health issues: part of the externalizing behavior disorders. Clover extremes: high level of assertiveness a strength and can be used in therapeutic interventions. Strengths include: lots of power, strong voice and providing choices and negotiating them helps. Description of conduct problems: age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate expectations, societal norms and personal or property rights of others, these disruptive and rule-violating behaviors range from: Annoying minor behaviors to serious antisocial behaviors: we must consider many types, pathways, causes, and outcomes of conduct problems. Associated with unfortunate family and neighborhood circumstances such as hanging with the wrong crowd. Social and economic costs: conduct problems are the costliest mental health problem in north.
