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Abstract
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adolescent’s behaviour is considered antisocial if
it violates personal or property rights of others or rules
developed by society.
Because of a critical period t he adolescence is and
the most alarming disturbances in this period is the antisocial
behaviour. The aim of the work is to review the
literature as regards the personality disorders related to
antisocial, dyssocial behaviours, drug abuse and sexual
perversion.
Adolescence is a period of transition between childhood
and adulthood (approximatly ages 12 to 20). This
period is characterized by a group of developmental problems
that are biological, psychological and social in origin
and timing with the prominant problems of adjustment of
heterosexual relations, occupational orientation, the development
of mature set of values and responsible selfdirectian.
Some take additional problems by antisocial behaviour
or delinquency.
As for classification some classified antisocial personali
ty disorders into two main types namely the predominant
aggressive type and the predominant passive one. Some
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others classified the sociopathic pattern to anti social
personality and dysBocial personality. In the other hand
the DSM-III diVided the conduct disorders int0 aggressive
undersocialized, aggressive socialized, unaggressive socialized,
unaggressive unsocilized and atypical types.
The incidence of the antisocial personality disorders
varies from 2% to 7% of adolescent ”s population. The major
offences of boys are trauncy, stealing, fire sitting,
vandilism and substance abuse. In girls the major offences
are stealing, shoplifting and sexual promiscuty. The
incidence of antisocial behaviour is higher in males, low
income, minority and culturally deprived groups and it
raises with industerialization and urbanization of population.
It may high as 75% in prison popultion.
As for the aetiology the genetic factors play a prominant
role. Children of sociopathic or alcoholics parents
are powerful predictor to antisocial personality in adolescence
life even they had reared away from their parents.
The 47-chromosome XYY male shows aggressive, impulsive and
criminal inclinations. Modeling is another cause when the
adolescent identifies the behaviour of his parents, teachers,
or beers. Intentional and coping behaViOur may lead
to antisocial behaViours as in the cases of murdering presidents
John Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King and others.
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Condition failure is another cause. Psychoanali tcally
the antisocial proclivitis as innate but constrained by
ego end superego. Self concept as when the child see
himself as bed or unlovable person may lead also to anticocial
behaviour. Rejection, ne~licance and broken
homes offer the chance for the child to be antisocial
adolescent. On the other hand overprotection and overaffection
may also deliver the disorder. The most prominent
and alarming factor that have been increased
nowadays is addiction and abuse of drugs. Antisocial
behaviour may arise from induced need to support a drug
habit. This instance in which one type of antisocial
behaviour (illegal drug abuse) leads in a circular fashion
to another (theft, prostitution, etc •••). Organic
causes e.g. hyperkinitic syndrome, physical handicaps,
and other miscellaneous factors as chaise between two
evils may lead to antisocial behaviours.
The manifistations of antisocial are wide variable.
Running away is very common and cause great werry to
parents.Adolescents may run away in groups to form gangs.
Truancy is also common. Stealing is very alarming antisocial
form. Aggressive behaviour which take the form
of violence is also alarming sign, Disapproval sexual
behaviour as rape, sex offences against children are serious
alarming sign. Vandalism and fire setting are less
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common. Substance abuse is the one prominant feature,
the antisocial behaviour increase the rate of alcoholism
and drug abuse. About 90% of the deltnquen ts had used
at least one, They intially started by marijuana ended
by addi cti on of LSD and heri on.
Diagnosis of antisocial personality require a through
and careful ev~_ution, acurate history tacking complete
physical and neurologicl examination, psychological and
various investigations e.g. EEG may be required. Differential
diagnosis from schizophrenia, temporal lope epilipsy
and other types of brain damage syndromes.
As regards prognosis most of which clear up when they
grows up, but Borne show poor prognosis. The good prognostic
features are young age, presence of emotional excess,
episodic and not persistant the desire to change and the
absence of complications e.g. addiction.
On manageing the ant i800181 adolescents; the conventional
treatments avaliable involving case work, indiviual
psychotherapy, milieu therapy, and therapeutic
community are discussed. Findings indicate that, in general,
these treatments are inadequate for the rehabilition
needs of adolescents with conduct disorders. The unsatisfactory
results with the traditional methods e.g. case
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work, individual psychothrapy etc. may due to perception
of antisocial behaviour as a sickness rather t han a lack
of socialization. So a number of social studies are cited
as shwing the effectiveness of social learnine types of
programes. Success has been achieved with ant t socf.a.I adolesGents
in a behavioural-development intervention programes.
Programes of informations and prevention should be
introduced as early as in elemintary school. and prevention
programes should tailed to meet the ape cific needs,
interest, belifs and values of specific subgroups e.g.
inner city groups and suburban groups.