Conduct disorder is often comorbid with other problems such as depression and substance abuse. These problems can complicate the treatment of an adolescent with delinquent behavior. Due to the severity and duration of the individual’s behavior, it is difficult and sometimes has unsuccessful treatment process. My opinion is that having other factors contribute to the difficulty of the treatment of this disorder, like depression and substance abuse, can negatively impact the patient and challenge the therapist. Most outsiders would think that an adolescent displaying a delinquent behavior is just demonstrating rebellion against authority; that there isn’t any true reason for one to commit a crime. Looking deeper though at why an individual …show more content…
Many think that all that has to be done to cure a delinquent behavior in an adolescent is to have stricter rules to constrain them. The purpose of treatment for conduct disorder is to prevent further delinquency behavior. In order to come up with a treatment plan, a therapist must know what events or emotions triggered the conduct disorder and the individual’s interaction with their different environments. When treating conduct disorder the process consists of practicing psychotherapy and medication. Derek’s therapist put him through cognitive-behavioral therapy, which tries to improve problem solving skills, anger management, moral reasoning skills, and impulse control. Family therapy may also help with an individual’s disorder so one can gather the family’s feelings and teach them how to help their child. If one is not treated quickly and effectively for conduct disorder he or she may be at risk for developing other mental …show more content…
The psychologist noticed that there was a link between his mood and behavior, especially how negative his thoughts sometimes led to reckless and impulsive behavior. Without the psychologist involving Derek in social-cognitive techniques his treatment wouldn’t be successful. He would still have a negative outlook on himself and interactions with others. The medication that the therapist would prescribed to Derek for his depression is an antidepressant. It has been proven that antidepressants may increase suicidal thoughts, so not only with taking medication for this disorder to help manage the depressive behavior it might heighten the suicidal thoughts that will hurt the treatment processes. This mental illness will affect how the treatment process will work and how effective it will
In the book, Samenow strongly emphasizes that children become delinquent by choice. The theory of choice holds that youths will engage in delinquent and criminal behavior after weighing the consequences and benefits of their actions. Delinquent behavior is a rational choice made by a motivated offender who perceives that the chances of gain outweigh any possible punishment or loss. (Siegel & Welsh, 2011)
The hallmark of Conduct Disorder (CD) is an obvious and careless apathy for the rules, the rights, the emotions, and the personal territory of others. Aggression, deceitfulness, duress, and power over others are enjoyable to a child with CD. Children with CD pick fights, trespass, lie, cheat, steal, vandalize, display abusive behaviors, and, for older children, perpetrate unwanted sexual advances. The display of signs in younger children can be: ruthless bullying, lying for the purpose of lying, and stealing of useless things.
These researchers believe that intensive intervention approaches are needed for youth who display antisocial behaviors because such behaviors put them at even greater risk for abusing substances. They also state that when youth engage in antisocial behaviors, the parents tend to be less accepting of them, show less affection, support and attachment to them. The parents may also have harsher attitudes and discipline with such youth. In addition, according to Santisteban et al (1997), research has shown that parents of youth with antisocial behaviors often use reinforcement inappropriately, use inconsistent parenting styles, and have a lot of family conflict and poor attachment to their children. Family therapy and intervention can be useful in helping parents to become a protective factor to help youth deal with stressors they are facing and to prevent their abuse of substances. However, if families do not receive interventions or help, youth with antisocial behaviors are more likely to be influenced by antisocial peers, drug use, and criminal activity in their neighborhoods. Also, if the parents force their problematic youth out of the home too soon, then they will be more easily influenced by
According to the DSM-IV, if a child's problem behaviors do not meet the criteria for Conduct Disorder, but involve a pattern of defiant, angry, antagonistic, hostile, irritable, or vindictive behavior, Oppositional Defiant Disorder may be diagnosed. These children may blame others for their problems.
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Attempting to explain what causes a juvenile to become delinquent with pin point accuracy is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree; it cannot be done. However, there is a plethora of theories that attempt to explain the correlation between delinquent behavior committed by a juvenile and the experiences that brought him/her to that moment. For this reason, narrowing down the vast amounts of explanations can become quite challenging. Consequently, for this observation, the focus will center on the conflict theory, the culture conflict theory, and the cultural transmission theory as an attempt to clarify the connection between the two variables; juveniles and the delinquent behaviors that they exhibit.
Mr. Davis is currently 23 years old and has had a budding conduct disorder prior to the age of 15 years old. Mr. Davis’s behavioral issues began at the young age of 9 years old. At that time, Mr. Davis was truant from school and stealing items from neighbors and relatives to sell. He also got into multiple fights. By the age of 12, Mr. Davis’ crimes became more severe and by the age of 15, he was charged with auto theft. For a diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder, the presence of a conduct disorder had to be established prior to the age of 15. As outlined above, Mr. Davis’ actions prior to 15 years of age meet the DSM-5 criteria for the conduct disorder.
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Juvenile delinquency is a problem in society. The number of crimes committed by juveniles has gone down in the past 20 years, but it is still considered a big issue. It is believed by some people that a criminal starts young and any kid who commits crimes will grow up to be a criminal, but crimes among juveniles usually don't last for long. Most juveniles who commit crimes or status offenses, things that are only illegal because they are under the age of 18, are only Adolescent-Limited Offenders that grow out of it and become well-rounded adults. The ones who are in real trouble are the ones that keep on committing crimes even when they become adults or what is called Life-Course Persistent Offenders.
Conduct disorder is an inability to follow rules and behave in a socially acceptable way. People with this disorder exhibit aggression towards people and animals, are destructive towards property, are deceitful and seriously violate rules set by authority figures(3). Moreover, there are usually problems in the home such as divorce, poverty, child abuse, neglect, or parents that carry their own psychiatric diagnoses. In addition, patients with the disorder often carry other diagnoses such as oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, anxiety, attentio...
Conventional practice has long associated early preventive measures with positive delinquency reduction results. In particular, timely recognition of at-risk youth and correction of ineffective or minimally effective parenting techniques are critical to the prevention of future delinquency (Lundman, 1993). Numerous risk factors have been identified as indicators or predictors of juvenile delinquency and those factors represent dysfunction at several levels, specifically within the structure of the offender’s family. Some of these factors include conflict within the family, a lack of adequate supervision and/or rules, a distinct lack of parent-child attachment, instability, poor home life quality, parental expectations, out-of-home placements and inconsistent discipline (Shumaker, 1997). Social service professionals who frequently come into contact with children must be especially vigilant in order to detect the presence of any of the possibly contributory conditions mentioned above and to refer families to appropriate sources of assistance as early as possible.
Most humans tend to live by example and studies prove that our behavior is learned, but how do we explained the bad behavior of those that have good parents that are excellent role models. Some people would said that the parents are too flexible and the kids take advantage of them in the other hand when parents neglect the kids and are bad role models for their kids we easily find the answer to the problem. As a society we contradict ourselves for example; sometimes we tell parents to not be too flexible with our kids but at the same time we do not want parents to discipline their children too harsh. The question of why juveniles commit crime does not have an exact answer. Some juveniles commit crime because of peer pressure, anger against life, and others might be just do it for fun. Even though the question does not have a conquer answer to why juveniles commit crime we know that different factors contribute to the issue. In the book True Notebooks Mark the author did not only explain his personal experience as a volunteer teacher at the juvenile hall, but also what he learned from his students and how his perspective change regarding the juveniles as he spend more time with them. Mark also discover that even though he was not aware of it he was making a positive change on some of them and the fact that he was willing to teach them a writing class meant so much for some of the students, and most important Mark present on the book the different reasons juveniles commit crime.
There are many theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency and the factors that cause it. There is, and has been, a great amount of young people who engage in delinquent behavior throughout the nation and worldwide. What exactly is the catalyst that incites these young people to commit crime and stray from the ethical norm established in society? Are all youth susceptible to the temptation of deviant behavior or is it just some? Theories suggest different possible etiologies, which include: social factors, biological factors, psychological factors and physiological factors, among other things that may mold a child into a juvenile delinquent.
Juvenile delinquency is one of the major social issues in the United States today. Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is when “a violation of the law committed by a juvenile and not punishable by death or life imprisonment” (Merriam-webster.com). Although we have one justice system in America, the juvenile system differs from the adult juvenile system. Most juvenile delinquents range from as low as the age of seven to the age of seventeen. Once the delinquent or anyone turns the age of eighteen, they are considered an adult. Therefore, they are tried as an adult, in the justice system. There are many different reasons why a child would commit crime, such as mental and physical factors, home conditions, neighborhood environment and school conditions. In addition, there are a variety of effects that juvenile justice systems can either bad effects or good effects. Finally there are many different solutions that can reduce juvenile delinquency. As a result, juvenile delinquency is a major issue and the likeliness of it can be reduced. In order to reduce juvenile delinquency there has to be an understanding of the causes and the effects.