Childhood is primarily seen as a period of time that is sentimental; a time of innocence and purity where a child’s main responsibility is to enjoy life and grow as an individual. Unfortunately, this tends not to be the case for some children. Bullying is a nationwide issue that can come in four different forms: physical, verbal, relational/social and cyber bullying. The bully feels pleasure from humiliating their victims and gains a sense of power and authority from it. The bully may make fun of their victim for being an outcast and may say things like “no one likes you, you’re unloved, and you’re a loser” etc. However, the bully may be the one feeling insecure and unloved. If the harmful behaviors persistent, the child may suffer from conduct
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The disturbance in the behavior must cause significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. Lastly, component C states that if the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are not met for antisocial personality disorder (APA, 2013). Component A has four categories with fifteen criterions attached to it. In order to be diagnosed with conduct disorder, at least three of the 15 criteria must have occurred in the past twelve months from any of the four categories’, with at least one criterion being present in the past 6 months (APA, 2013). The four categories of conduct disorder are aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft and serious violations of rules. Each category has at least two or more criterions. The aggression to people and animals category has seven criterions: the individual often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others, often initiates physical fights, has used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others, has been physically cruel to people, has …show more content…
According to the DSM-5, the mild level of severity has few, if any conduct problems in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are present, and conduct problems cause relatively minor harm to others (APA, 2013). For instance, if a child lies, stay’s out past curfew and breaks rules it will be considered mild severity. With moderate severity, the number of conduct problems and the effect on others are intermediate between those specified in “mild” and those in “severe” (APA, 2013). Examples of moderate severe actions would be spray painting a building, stealing from someone without them noticing, etc. Lastly, individuals with the “severe” level of severity have many conduct problems in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are present, or conduct problems cause considerable harm to others. Examples include: rape, physical harm, mugging, breaking and entering, using a weapon etc. (APA,
The disturbance in the behavior must cause significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. Lastly, component C states that if the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are not met for antisocial personality disorder (APA, 2013). Component A has four categories with fifteen criterions attached to it. In order to be diagnosed with conduct disorder, at least three of the 15 criteria must have occurred in the past twelve months from any of the four categories’, with at least one criterion being present in the past 6 months (APA, 2013). The four categories of conduct disorder are aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft and serious violations of rules. Each category has at least two or more criterions. The aggression to people and animals category has seven criterions: the individual often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others, often initiates physical fights, has used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others, has been physically cruel to people, has …show more content…
According to the DSM-5, the mild level of severity has few, if any conduct problems in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are present, and conduct problems cause relatively minor harm to others (APA, 2013). For instance, if a child lies, stay’s out past curfew and breaks rules it will be considered mild severity. With moderate severity, the number of conduct problems and the effect on others are intermediate between those specified in “mild” and those in “severe” (APA, 2013). Examples of moderate severe actions would be spray painting a building, stealing from someone without them noticing, etc. Lastly, individuals with the “severe” level of severity have many conduct problems in excess of those required to make the diagnosis are present, or conduct problems cause considerable harm to others. Examples include: rape, physical harm, mugging, breaking and entering, using a weapon etc. (APA,