Analyzing Response Relationships in Childhood Aggression: The Clinical Perspective (From Childhood Aggression and Violence, P 75-94, 1987, David H Crowell, et al, eds. -- See NCJ-112364)

• NCJ Number: 112368
• Author(s): I M Evans; A D Scheuer
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 20 pages
• Sale Source: Plenum Publishing Corp
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

For research findings on aggression in childhood to be applied in designing individual interventions, requires a conceptual framework that views aggression as part of a behavioral system or repertoire of responses and as having a variety of dimensions.

Abstract

Because aggressive behaviors are socially defined and determined, they are inseparable from the interaction between the individual and his or her milieu. Aggression must be viewed as a complex component of the child's total behavioral repertoire that is dynamically regulated. In making treatment decisions it is necessary to determine if the aggression is unreasonably intense, if the child lacks social skills for dealing with anger once it has been aroused, and if the fear of the consequences of aggressive acts is insufficiently intense. On the basis of this determination, appropriate and multifaceted interventions can be designed. Such interventions might include training in social skills, assertiveness, self-control, problemsolving, and empathy. Other interventions might focus on modifying parental reinforcement and interaction patterns, while others might be based on community models. 46 references.