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37 Cards in this Set
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Internalizing Problems
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problems that primarily affect a persons internal world. Depression, anxiety, & eating disorders
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Externalizing Problems
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problems that create difficulties in a persons external world. Delinquency fighting, substance use, risky driving, & unprotected sex
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Overcontrolled
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young people who have internalizing problems
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Undercontrolled
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young people with externalizing problems
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Problem Behavior syndrome
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the pattern of correlations between various types of problem behavior
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Problem Behavior Theory
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Richard Jesor's theory. the basis for young people's problems behavior including background fators such as family income, personality factors such as parental constols & friends involvement in problem theory
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Binge Drinking
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consuming five or more alcholoic drinks in a row-at least once in the past two weeks
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Unstructured Socializing
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including behavior such as riding around in a car for fun, going to parties, going shopping, and going out with friends
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Gateway Drugs
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beer, wine, cigarettes, & marijuana
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Experimental Substance Use
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try a substance once or perhaps a few times out of curiosity & then do not use it agian
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Social Substance use
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Invloves the use of substances during social activities with one or more friends
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Medicinal Substance Use
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is undetaken to relieve an unpleasent emotional state such as sadness, anxiety, stress, or loneliness
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Self Medication
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the use of substances for relieving unpleasent states such as sadness or stress
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Addictive Substance Use
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takes place when a person has come to depend on regular use of substances to feel good physically or psychologically
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Withdrawal Symptoms
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such as high anxiety & tremors when they stop taking the substance they are addicted to
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Parental Monitoring
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the extent to which parents know were their adolescents are & what they are doing at any given time
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Delinquency
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when vilations of the law are commited by juvenials
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Status Offenses
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offences that are defined as violations of the law
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Index Crimes
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crimes divided into two categories: violent crimes, and property crimes
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Violent Crimes
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rape assult & murder
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Property Crimes
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robbery, vehicle theft, and arson
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Nonindex Crimes
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less serious offensessuch as illegal gambling & disorderaly conduct
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Life-Course Persistent Delinquents
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in Moffitt's theory, adolescents who saw a history of related problems prior to & following adolescence
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Peer Cotagion
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a delinquent clique
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Ethos
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a kind of within school belief system
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Protective Factor
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characteristics of young people that are related to lower likelihood of participation in risks behavior
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Low Impulse Control
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difficulty in excising self-constol, is another characteristic related to risk behaviors in adolescence such as substance use & delinquency
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Depression
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an enduring period of sadness
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Depression Mood
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an enduring period of sadness by itself, without related symptoms
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Major Depressive Disorder:
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SEE NOTES
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Diathesis Stress Model
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mental disorders such as depression often begin with a preexisting vulnerability
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Placebo Design
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all of the depressed adolescents take pills but only the taken by adolescents in the treatment group contain the drug
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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an approachto treating psychological disorders that focuses on changing negative ways of thinking & practicing new ways of interacting with others
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Negative Attributions
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negative ways of explainingwhat happens in one's life
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Anorexia Nervosa
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intentional self starvation
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Bulimia
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binge eating combined with purging
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Amenhorrhea
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girls stop menstruating returning them to prepubertal state
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