PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anti-Social Behaviour, Substance Abuse
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Most problems reflect transitory experimentation: occasional vs. enduring patterns of dangerous behaviour. Not all problems begin in adolescence: many adolescent delinquency is due to problems in childhood. Most problems do not persist into adulthood. Problems during adolescence are not cause by adolescence. Substance abuse: the misuse of alcohol or other drugs to a degree that causes problems in the individuals life. Externalizing disorders: psychosocial problems that are manifested in a turning of the symptoms outward, as in aggression or delinquency. Internalizing disorder: psychosocial problems that are manifested in a turning on the symptoms inward, as in depression or anxiety. Comorbid: co-occurring as when an individual has more than one problem at the same time. Comorbidity of externalizing problems: problem behaviour syndrome. The covariation among various types of externalizing disorders believed to result from an underlying trait of unconventionality. Has to do with individuals personality and the social environment: problem clusters.
