Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Juvenile Delinquency, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anti-Social Behaviour

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St Pierre

Document Summary

1: age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate family expectations, societal norms, and personal or property rights of others, these disruptive and rule-violating behaviours range from, annoying minor behaviours (ex. Vandalism, theft, and assault: we must consider many types, pathways, causes, and outcome of conduct problems, are associated with unfortunate family and neighbourhood circumstances, circumstances do not excuse the behaviour, but help us understand it and prevent it. Frequencies for common antisocial behaviour: parent-reported frequencies for common antisocial behaviours in clinic and nonreferred boys and girls age. 30-50% of clinic referrals: annual public costs (healthcare, juvenile justice, and educational systems) is ,000 per child. Psychological perspectives: conduct problems fall on a continuous dimension, externalizing dimension. "aggressive behaviour: overt-covert dimension, destructive-non-destructive dimension, crossing the over-covert with the destructive-non-destructive, yields 4 categories of conduct problems. Is the adult brain different than it was in adolescence: yes, egocentrism: overly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings.