Antisocial Behaviour Flashcards
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What is Antisocial behaviour?
Antisocial behaviour is generally defined as behaviour that transgresses a society’s rules, norms and laws and likely to cause harm to others.
What is the legal definition of antisocial behaviour?
It’s behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household.
How many young people meet the criteria for ‘behaviour disorder’?
1 in 20 young people aged 5- 19
Which gender has a higher rate of antisocial behaviour in people under the age of 19?
Boys tend to have a higher rate then girls
Antisocial behaviour accounts for how much of all years lived with disability?
1 percent
What is the mean costs of conduct behaviour now and how has it differed from the past?
The costs of conduct behaviour is now 103k per person but used to be 70k in 2001.
What things are included in the mean costs of conduct disorder?( what does mean cost count for)
- Policing
- Educational provision
- Social work
- Impact of crime
- Criminal justice processes
What does the mean costs of conduct disorder fail to account?
These costs fail to acknowledge the misery to families and victims of antisocial behaviour.
When does antisocial behaviours tend to peak?
Antisocial behaviours tend to peak in early teen years and gradually dip afterwards.
State Examples of antisocial behaviour — psychiatric syndromes( diagnosis )
- Oppositional defiant disorder ( ODD)
- Conduct Behaviour (conduct dis-social disorder)
- Antisocial personality disorder ( dissocial personality disorder )
What is oppositional defiant disorder and characteristics ?
- oppositional defiant disorder is an example of Anti-social behaviour
- its in younger children under the age of 12
- children with oppositional tend to challenge adult authority
What is conduct behaviour ( conduct dissocial disorder) and characteristics ?
- conduct behaviour is an example of Anti-social behaviour
- found in adolescents ( anyone over the age of 12 )
Character: - Repeated rule/ law breaking
- Disregard the rights and well being of others
- Show a lack of empathy ( now can be specified with Limited prosocial emotions)
What are the issues that arise with helping a person with conduct disorder?
They tend to respond less well to therapies and treatments offered to young people with behaviours that challenge.
What 3 things does the psychopathy checklist include and how do they all relate?
The psychopathy checklist looks at three areas:
- Callous unemotional—> individuals with high calllose emotional traits are thought to have an unreactive amygdalas
- Grandiose manipulative—> they have a sense of self worth and often feel superior to others and use this to manipulate others to do things for them. ( often the narcissism that leads to an eventual apprehension as they feel more intelligent then others.
- Daring impulsive domain
Individuals with conduct disorder may also have a few developmental issues. What are these developmental issues? (Comorbidity with conduct disorder)
- Specified and generalised learning problems
- Literacy issues ( dyslexia )
- Speech and language problems
- Learning disabilities
- Autism spectrum conditions
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Individuals with conduct disorder may also have a few mental health issues. What are these metal health issues ( what can you say about some of these)? (Comorbidity with conduct disorder)
-Depression —> depressive conduct behaviour is often overlooked. This is because people tend to focus on the issues of conduct behaviour over the constant low mood the person may be in.
- Substance misuse/ dependancy —> drugs such as bensodiazapines
-post-traumatic stress disorder
Attachment disorder
What is antisocial personality disorder( Dissocial personality disorder) and characteristics ?
- antisocial personality disorder is an example of antisocial behaviour
- its genuinely diagnosed in adults but can now be diagnosed in younger children
Characteristics:
-lack of empathy for others - repeated floating social morals/ laws
- failure to respond to punishment
- risk taking, superficial charm and manipulative
Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder are slightly linked explain how?
When a child is diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder once they get over the age of 12 this tends to become conduct disorder which is the adult version.
Whats a the key thing to remember when a young person is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?
That they do not take the diagnosis to adult hood if their symptoms of antisocial personality disorder decrease and they no longer meet the Criteria.
What do you need to do when assessing a person with conduct disorder?
- Check NICE guidelines
- Obtain information from multiple sources
- Detailed developmental history
- Cognitive assessment
- Mental health assessment
- early life history trauma
What examples of adverse childhood events?
Sexual abuse
Physical abuse
Verbal abuse
Domestic abuse of parent
What are the consequences of adverse childhood events ?
Adverse childhood events lead to poorer mental and physical well being and could lead to early death.
Nature vs nature : what is associated with antisocial behaviour and is there an hereditary component to criminal behaviour?
- Adversity is associated with antisocial behaviour
- There is a hereditary component in criminal behaviour and this was seen in a Scandinavian adoption study: children of adopted form criminal parents were more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour.
What are the some of the causes of Anti social behaviour
- Warrior genes
- adversity
