Sentences with phrase «increased antisocial behaviour»

While recent studies have shown increasing antisocial behaviour among young women, serious assaults or murders involving girls usually involve long histories of neglect or abuse.

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Dogs Trust is also concerned about the large numbers of Bull breeds that are being abandoned following increasing publicity associating them with dog attacks, crime and antisocial behaviour.

If the function of antisocial behaviour is to increase physiological arousal levels, then exposing antisocial individuals to functionally equivalent forms of arousing situations (e.g. aerobic exercise) should result in a reduction in maladaptive behaviours.»

Mothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcomes.21

Children of mothers who have recurrent depression in addition to anxiety, antisocial behaviour or problem alcohol use, are at increased risk of developing a new psychiatric condition

Objective measures of the child's antisocial behaviour show improvement; appropriate parental behaviour increases, with a large reduction in smacking.

In its extreme, antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy are exemplary for individuals displaying increased aggressive behaviour and studies of both have linked structural [95,96] and functional [97,98] changes to the prefrontal cortex.

But this increased opportunity to socialise and communicate in a virtual environment has offered new avenues for antisocial behaviour.

Societal concern about antisocial behaviours of children and adolescents has increased over the years, in part due to the enormous financial costs of youth crime.1 Conduct problems (especially among boys) are the most frequent childhood behavioural problems to be referred to mental health professionals.2 Aggressive and disruptive behaviour is one of the most enduring dysfunctions in children and, if left untreated, frequently results in high personal and emotional costs to children, their families and to society in general.

Not only do they tend to increase children's intellectual abilities, positive social behaviours, school commitment, and their likelihood of graduating from high school, but they also lower children's likelihood of repeating a grade and of engaging in antisocial behaviours during their adolescence.

In comparison with their never exposed peers, children continuously and intermittently exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood showed an increased propensity toward physical aggression and antisocial behaviour by the end of fourth grade.

Background Persistent engagement in antisocial behaviour across developmental periods is thought to increase the risk for early disease morbidity.