Gender Differences in Psychiatric Disorders at Juvenile Probation Intake

Wasserman, Gail A.; McReynolds, Larkin S.; Ko, Susan J.; Katz, Laura M.; Carpenter, Jennifer R.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2003.024737

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“…Secondly, we support the idea of Klomek et al [5] , who have explained this gender difference by a gender paradox in which girls are more rarely bullies, but, when they are, they have more severe impairment than boys. This same phenomenon is seen in the findings of Wasserman et al [15] stating that girls who have conduct problems are at a higher risk of affective disorders than boys. Thirdly, the number of boys (208) in our sample is much smaller than the number of girls (300).…”

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Bullying Behavior Is Related to Suicide Attempts but Not to Self-Mutilation among Psychiatric Inpatient Adolescents

Luukkonen¹,

Räsänen²,

Hakko³

et al. 2009

Psychopathology

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Background: To investigate the association of bullying behavior with suicide attempts and self-mutilation among adolescents. Sampling andMethods: The study sample consisted of 508 Finnish adolescents (age 12–17 years) admitted to psychiatric inpatient care between April 2001 and March 2006. DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses and variables measuring suicidal behavior (i.e. suicide attempts and self-mutilation) and bullying behavior (i.e. a victim, a bully or a bully-victim) were obtained from the Schedule for Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children Present and Lifetime (K-SADS-PL). Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the impact of being a victim, a bully or both a bully and a victim on suicide attempts and self-mutilation. Results: After adjusting for age, school factors, family factors and psychiatric disorders, there was a higher risk of suicide attempts in girls who were victims of bullying (OR = 2.07, CI = 1.04–4.11, p = 0.037) or who bullied others (OR = 3.27, CI = 1.08–9.95, p = 0.037). Corresponding associations were not found for boys; nor was any association of bullying behavior with self-mutilation found among either sex. Conclusions: Among girls, being bullied or bullying others are both potential risk factors for suicidal behavior. Psychiatric assessment and treatment should thus be considered not only for victims of bullying, but also for bullies. Suicide-prevention programs should also routinely include interventions to reduce bullying. However, the generalization of our findings to all adolescents is limited because our study sample consisted of psychiatric adolescent patients. In addition, some of the possible findings might have remained statistically insignificant due to the small sample size among adolescents who had performed suicide attempts or self-mutilation.

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Bullying Behavior Is Related to Suicide Attempts but Not to Self-Mutilation among Psychiatric Inpatient Adolescents

Luukkonen¹,

Räsänen²,

Hakko³

et al. 2009

Psychopathology

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“…50 The sex differences in the association with bullying may be understood by a gender paradox. 51,52 Wasserman et al 53 found that female adolescents who demonstrate conduct problems are at higher risk of affective disorders than comparable males. Bullying behaviour could be another example of a gender paradox, 52,53 whereby the females are less likely to be bullies, but, when they are, they have a more severe impairment than their male counterparts.…”

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The Association of Suicide and Bullying in Childhood to Young Adulthood: A Review of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Research Findings

2010

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S uicidal behaviours affect millions of teenagers each year, indicating a public health problem in need of attention and intervention. Suicide rates among young people have been increasing to such an extent that they are now the group at highest risk in one-third of countries, both in developed and in developing countries. 1,2 Bullying among school-age children is now recognized as a major public health problem in the Western world. In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States published a report 3 emphasizing the importance of focusing attention of this problem. The most widely employed definition of bullying was provided by Olweus 4 indicating that a person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more people. Olweus further suggested that bullying involves an imbalance of power. 4 Bullying behaviour falls into 4 general categories:

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“…In a study by Wasserman et al of 991 adolescents under probation, 80% of the sample was male [20]. In a Northwestern Juvenile Project study involving 1829 male and female adolescents aged from 10 to 18 years at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, approximately 90% of all detainees were males, a similar percentage as all child detainees in the U.S. [21].…”

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Mental problems and sociodemographic characteristics in children driven to committing crimes and the preparation of forensic reports

Nasıroğlu

Semerci²

2017

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Objective: In children referred for forensic reports by juvenile courts, particularly as psychosexual maturation starts in the initial phases of adolescence, actions defined as criminal by society may be expected to have been committed. These actions, which are frequently the results of unconscious impulses and sometimes affectations, are crimes in the general sense for this reason; great care is required when determining the presence of the ability of children to perceive the legal meaning and consequences of crimes that they commit and their ability to channel their behaviors. The aim of this present study is to examine the mental problems in children driven to committing crimes and the preparation of forensic reports in a Turkish forensic sample. Results: After evaluations, 26% of children and adolescents were found to possess the ability to perceive the legal meaning and consequences of the crime they had committed and have the ability to control their behaviors, while 27% could perceive the legal meaning and consequences but could not control their behavior, and 47% did not have the ability to perceive the legal meaning and consequences of the crime they had committed and to control their behaviors. Conclusions: The ability to perceive the meaning and consequences of crime and to direct one's behaviors are affected by pathologies related with the family and the child. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Gender Differences in Psychiatric Disorders at Juvenile Probation Intake

Abstract: Among youths with conduct problems, girls demonstrated an elevated risk for co-occurring anxiety or affective disorder.

Cited by 195 publications

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Bullying Behavior Is Related to Suicide Attempts but Not to Self-Mutilation among Psychiatric Inpatient Adolescents

Bullying Behavior Is Related to Suicide Attempts but Not to Self-Mutilation among Psychiatric Inpatient Adolescents

The Association of Suicide and Bullying in Childhood to Young Adulthood: A Review of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Research Findings

Mental problems and sociodemographic characteristics in children driven to committing crimes and the preparation of forensic reports

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