Sentences with phrase «chronically aggressive children»

The program specifically targets chronically aggressive children and adolescents ages 12 - 17.

An emerging body of literature24, 25 shows that a subgroup of chronically aggressive children exhibit marked difficulty processing social cues that signal the need to inhibit aggressive impulses.26 These findings have been attributed to reduced responding in specific neural architecture associated with stress responses and HPA axis regulation.

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It focuses on play therapy with special populations of aggressive acting - out children, autistic children, chronically ill children, traumatized children, selective mute children, disassociative identity disorder adults with child alters, and the elderly.

Among chronically ill children those with high self - esteem were more prosocial and less aggressive than those with low self - esteem.