Conclusions Findings highlight the impact of
persistent antisocial behaviour on adult health, and suggest that antisocial behaviour limited to adolescence is also an important marker of poor health.
Results With few exceptions, those with
persistent antisocial behaviour had the highest prevalence of each health problem.
The community trigger will give victims and communities the right to demand that
persistent antisocial behaviour is dealt with.
What victims of
persistent antisocial behaviour want when they report it is simply for the behaviour to stop and for them to be dealt with by the council and / or police in a satisfactory way.
Not exact matches
Another study showed that
persistent crying episodes in infancy is linked with a 10 times greater chance of the child having ADHD, resulting in poor school performance and
antisocial behaviour.
Persistent, poorly controlled
antisocial behaviour, however, is socially handicapping and often leads to poor adjustment in adults.1 It occurs in 5 % of children, 2 and its prevalence is rising.3 The children live with high levels of criticism and hostility from their parents and are often rejected by their peers.3 Truancy is common, most leave school with no qualifications, and over a third become recurrent juvenile offenders.4 In adulthood, offending usually continues, relationships are limited and unsatisfactory, and the employment pattern is poor.
Antisocial behaviour accounts for 30 - 40 % of referrals to child mental health services.6 Most referrals meet general clinical diagnostic guidelines for conduct disorder from ICD - 10 (international classification of diseases, 10th revision), which require at least one type of antisocial behaviour to be marked and p
Antisocial behaviour accounts for 30 - 40 % of referrals to child mental health services.6 Most referrals meet general clinical diagnostic guidelines for conduct disorder from ICD - 10 (international classification of diseases, 10th revision), which require at least one type of
antisocial behaviour to be marked and p
antisocial behaviour to be marked and
persistent.
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
As commented by Manuck, Kaplan and Lotrich [29] this hypothesis is consistent with the identification by Moffitt [39] of different trajectories of childhood
antisocial behaviour, one of which is described as «life - course -
persistent» and thought to be strongly influenced by neurobiology.
Distinguishing the early - onset /
persistent and adolescence - onset
antisocial behaviour types: from birth to sixteen years
Compared to those with no
antisocial behaviour, participants with
persistent problems had poorer overall health and significantly elevated odds of cardiovascular problems, wheezing, lower back pain, cancer, serious injury and emergency department visits.
Adolescents with conduct disorder (CD) and elevated callous - unemotional (CU) traits have been reported to present with a more severe and
persistent pattern of
antisocial behaviour than those with low levels of CU traits.
Background
Persistent engagement in
antisocial behaviour across developmental periods is thought to increase the risk for early disease morbidity.