Not exact matches
In service of this goal, parents learn to observe their child's
behaviour in an objective,
unemotional manner and to implement appropriate consequences in response to disruptive
behaviour.
It was found that greater dysfunctional representations were significantly associated with higher CU
behaviours but not conduct problems, and that dysfunctional family representations partially accounted for the link between sensitive parenting and later CU
behaviours, indicating that the internalization of caregiving may be one of multiple developmental mechanisms contributing to the association between parenting and callous -
unemotional conduct.
It has been put forward by Wagner et al. (2015) that the dimensions of relational functioning as measured by the FDP may be less related to overt
behaviours such as conduct problems than to the emotional / affective processes that characterize callous -
unemotional traits.
Poor regulatory abilities often place the child at risk of developing pathologies such as disruptive
behaviour problems or ADHD.9 In relation to
behaviour problems, it is important to distinguish between reactive aggression (emotionally - driven conduct problems) and proactive aggression (unprovoked,
unemotional aggression that is used for personal gain or to influence and coerce others).
In service of this goal, parents learn to observe their child's
behaviour in an objective,
unemotional manner and to implement appropriate consequences in response to disruptive
behaviour.
Callous
Unemotional (CU) traits are a meaningful specifier in subtyping CD for more severe antisocial and aggressive
behaviours in adult psychopathology; they represent the affective dimension of adult psychopathy, but they can be also detected in childhood and adolescence.
We explored the relationships between callous -
unemotional traits and functional polymorphisms of selected serotonin - system genes, and tested the association between callous -
unemotional traits and serum serotonin levels independently of antisocial and aggressive
behaviour.
For example, only the callous
unemotional dimension was negatively related with prosocial
behaviour and only the behavioural dimension was positively related with hyperactivity.
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.