Sentences with phrase «onset behaviour problems»

This is the first time that this apparent influence has been demonstrated for observed father - infant interaction and such early onset behaviour problems.

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In addition to night waking and sleep onset problems, children may also experience a range of undesirable behaviours occurring during their sleep or sleep - wake transitions, including sleepwalking, sleep talking, bedwetting, bruxism (i.e., grinding or clenching the teeth during sleep), sleep terrors, and rhythmic movement disorders (rocking the entire body from one side to another, rolling the head against the pillow).

Mills concluded, «These results are consistent with the suggestion that whenever there is a late age onset to a behaviour problem, medical issues including those related to pain, should be carefully evaluated.

Each session involved a review of sleep diaries and progress, education about sleep and the causes of chronic insomnia, behaviour therapy targeting problems with sleep onset and maintenance, relaxation training, cognitive restructuring procedures, and sleep hygiene education.

Juvenile onset depression that did not recur in adulthood had a higher proportion of men, externalising behaviours (similar to Harrington et al's findings2), perinatal problems, conduct disorder, MDD, crime by parents, and difficult temperament than juvenile onset depression that recurred in adulthood.

Rather fewer meet the diagnostic criteria for research, which for the oppositional defiant type of conduct disorder seen in younger children require at least four specific behaviours to be present.7 The early onset pattern — typically beginning at the age of 2 or 3 years — is associated with comorbid psychopathology such as hyperactivity and emotional problems, language disorders, neuropsychological deficits such as poor attention and lower IQ, high heritability, 8 and lifelong antisocial behaviour.9 In contrast, teenage onset antisocial behaviour is not associated with other disorders or neuropsychological deficits, is more environmentally determined than inherited, and tends not to persist into adulthood.9

Children with early - onset conduct problems (CPs) are at high risk for chronic antisocial and aggressive behaviour, and a variety of social and mental health problems in adolescence and adulthood (e.g. delinquency, psychiatric disorders, substance use, school dropout; Fergusson et al. 2005; Kratzer and Hodgins 1997).

Delinquents have repeatedly been shown to have an IQ that is 8 - 10 points lower than law abiding peers - and this is before the onset of antisocial behaviour.24 Other traits predisposing to conduct problems include irritability and explosiveness, lack of social awareness and social anxiety, and reward seeking behaviour.

Finally, in a recent issue of «The Psychologist» which is devoted to the topic of aggressive and violent behaviour, Sanders and Morawska have concluded that it is the quality of parenting which is the strongest, potentially modifiable risk factor contributing to early - onset conduct problems.

It is a period of biological, cognitive and social change of such magnitude and rapidity that it is no surprise to find that it is associated with the onset or exacerbation of a number of health - related problems including depression (1), eating disorders (2), substance abuse and dependence (3 — 5), risky sexual behaviour (6), antisocial and delinquent activity (7) and school dropout (8).

Abbreviations CP: Conduct problems; Conduct Disorder (CD); SDQ: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; DAWBA: Development and Well Being Assessment; EOP: Early - Onset Persistent; AO: Adolescent - Onset; AL: Adolescence - Limited; CL: Childhood - Limited; ASB: Antisocial Behaviour; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist

This pathway is characterized by three elements: the onset of conduct problems (such as developmentally excessive levels of aggression, noncompliance, and other oppositional behaviour) in the preschool and early school - age years; a high degree of continuity throughout childhood and into adolescence and adulthood; and a poor prognosis.1, 2 The most comprehensive family - based formulation for the early - starter pathway has been the coercion model developed by Patterson and his colleagues.3, 4 The model describes a process of «basic training» in conduct - problem behaviours that occurs in the context of an escalating cycle of coercive parent - child interactions in the home, beginning prior to school entry.

We now have an array of observational methods to evaluate the quality of the infant - parent attachment relationship by the age of 18 months, before the onset of more serious behaviour problems.16 Service providers in contact with young families need more training in using and interpreting these early observational tools.

The onset and persistence of conduct problems is important, as the earlier the onset, the greater the (a) co-morbidity of adjustment problems, such as emotional difficulties and hyperactivity, and the (b) risk for a life - course trajectory of antisocial behaviour and lifestyle (Moffitt 2006).