Aggression in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

This research paper entails the detail study on aggression in children and adolescence, which is the leading problems prevailing in our society. This research papers provides the reasons and factors that contributes towards the aggressive behavior that is child parent relation, peer interaction and violence on television. This paper also explains the counseling programs for the treatment of aggressive behavior in children and adolescents.

Table of Content

Abstracti

Introduction2

Discussion3

Parent- Child Interaction4

Peer Interaction5

Television7

Counseling for Aggression8

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy8

Play Therapy blended with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy9

Psychosocial Treatment11

Conclusion12

References13

Aggression in Children and Adolescents

Introduction

Thesis statement: Prevalence of Aggression in children and adolescents.

During the past 50 years, anti social behavior and maladaptive aggression rate have increased to an alarming rate amongst children and adolescents. The foremost and vital source of the increase in the public health problem of society is the consequences of the violence in youth and aggression related activities performed by youth. The identification, inhibition, assessment, referral, and treatment of aggression of youth are exigent for many institutions, schools, clinical mental health resources, and juvenile justice authorities.

Aggression is defined as the behavior that leads to the causing or threatening physical harms to others. Aggression is not a unitary terms, rather it encompasses of multiplicity of behaviors, which includes bullying, robbery, verbal aggression, physical fighting, homicide and rape (Loeber & Hay, 1997). A consistent finding by the researchers leads to the surprise that early childhood starts during early life of a person, and at about the age of four reaches the peak (Campbell, Shaw & Gilliom, 2000). It has been found that aggressive pattern becomes evident during the preschool entry age of a child. It has been found that 67% of children, who were reported within the clinical range of disorder of conduct at the age of two, were still going through conduct disorder at the age of five and six years; and approximately one third of the five year old reported children of conduct disorder were still aggressive by the age of 14. Moffitt (1993) demonstrated that 86% of children, who were engaged in conduct disorder at the age of seven, were still revealing similar behavior at the age of 15. Aggressive behavior problems are present during preschool children, and these behaviors are maintained by 50% of these children during adolescence, and adequate number of children further engages in antisocial behavior (Campbell 1995).

The children, who perseveres the behavior of aggression, are of serious concerns. A little percentage of adolescents is accounted for the majority of arrest and violent acts (about 6%). A Stockholm study demonstrated that 6.2% of males are indulged in committing 70% of all offences, with 71% of the offences that are violent in nature are committed by the gang up to the age of 30 years.

Majority of the serious aggression; however not all, during adolescence and adulthood phase is committed by youth, who have been observing the persistent aggressive behavior, since childhood. Another life span pattern that leads to aggressive behavior is described as adolescence limited variety or adolescence onset ...