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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"aggressive youth"”.
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Psychopathic traits and social-cognitive processes in aggressive youth
Psychopathy is associated with severe and violent aggressive behaviors, poor treatment outcomes and high rates of recidivism. In youth, conduct problems and callous/unemotional characteristics are associated with characteristics of adulthood psychopathy. Downward extending adult criteria to youth …
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Social Likeability, Subtypes of Aggression, and the Attributional Style of Aggressive Youth
… The form, severity and persistence of these aggressive subtypes may depend on an on-going interaction between individual characteristics and environmental characteristics that elicit varying antecedents and consequences (Frick, 1998; Lahey et al., 1999). In particular, there exists some …
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Testing the Impact of Social Acceptance on Outcomes: Comparing Two Forms of an Intervention for Aggressive Youth
Coping Power is an empirically supported school-based intervention for children at risk for aggression and associated problems. Recent studies have tested individual- and program-level factors that may enhance or hinder meaningful CP outcomes. Some factors, such as inhibitory control and genetic …
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Developmental Pathways to Psychopathic Traits in Caucasian and African American Juvenile Offenders
… more specifically, callous-unemotional traits in youth, may constitute a distinct developmental pathway to aggressive behavior. However, ethnic groups are understudied in this literature such that it is unclear whether the correlates of psychopathic traits (i.e., violence, aggression, emotional …
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Effects of a crisis training program on reported job stress and self efficacy of youth care workers managing seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents in placement
… in residential placement tend to act out aggressively. Such behavior often creates an atmosphere of intimidation and fear which contributes to the high stress, sense of incompetence, and frequent turn over of youth care staff. Formal training for these practitioners is limited in scope and …
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PEER GROUP SOCIALIZATION OF AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: SOCIAL STATUS, GROUP CHARACTERISTICS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… special attention should be given to high-status aggressive youth in future prevention and intervention programs in order to reduce aggression and violence in school.