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How Children Become Violent
(Intermediate Level)
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
- Readers will be able to name 4 stages of moral development.
- Readers will be able to name 3 youth violence risk assessment tools.
- Readers will be able to name 5 risk factors for youth violence.
- Readers will be able to name 4 resiliency factors of youth violence.
- Readers will be able to explain how child maltreatment negatively affects positive maternal bonding and attachment.
- Readers will be able to be able to explain how problems with early attachment negatively affect how children relate to others later in life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Part I - Violence and Disrupted Attachment Patterns (DAP)
- Chapter 1 - Secure and Disrupted Attachments
- Chapter 2 - Characteristics of Children with Disrupted Attachments Patterns
- Chapter 3 - Six Stages of Moral Development
- Chapter 4 - Why Do People Resort to Violence?
- Chapter 5 - The Problem of Violence in Every Corner of the World
- Part II - Assessment
- Chapter 6 - Assessment of Disruptive Attachment Patterns
- Chapter 7 - Assessing Severe, Chronic Aggression and Psychopathy
- Chapter 8 - Assessment of Behavior Problems, Violence, and Placement Needs
- Chapter 9 - Assessment of Adult Risk of Violence Sexual Offending
- Part III - Treatment
- Chapter 10 - Treatment for Children with Disrupted Attachment Patterns
- Chapter 11 - Treating Youth at High Risk for Violence
- Chapter 12 - A Promising Practice for the Future: School- Based Mental Health
- Conclusion
- References
Introduction
Violence is an age-old phenomenon. War, genocide, and killing are cornerstones that define history. Yet in the 21st century, we are experiencing violence in ways never seen before. It may be in worldwide terrorist organizations, inner city and suburban gangs, or the disturbed teenager next door who takes his rage out on innocent classmates.
Those who commit violence today, as Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D. explains in this course, are likely to be adults or adolescents who themselves witnessed violence as children or were abused or neglected in their early years. Childhood is a time when bonding with caregivers stimulates the formulation of behavioral regulation, interpersonal skills, moral and brain development, and problem solving. When it is interrupted “Disrupted Attachments Patterns” (DAP) can form. This means that today’s violent, neglected, psychologically unbalanced, and traumatized children are likely to be tomorrow’s dangers to society - that is, unless we can intervene to assess DAP and offer them appropriate therapy.
Dr. Seifert offers personal insights from over 30 years of experience in mental health, addictions, and criminal justice work to help other therapists, victims, and parents understand not only how children become violent, but she illuminates the pathway to a violence-free future.
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