Antisocial behavior is ... Types, symptoms, causes and treatment

The characteristics of an individual’s thinking and actions are influenced by the norms specific to a particular society. But not all people obey the established laws. Persons who violate them act on other members of the group in which they are located. Acts that do not comply with moral and legal standards are called antisocial behavior. This phenomenon is found among different segments of the population.

What is meant by this concept?

Any individual obeys the laws of the group to which he belongs. Man is familiar with moral and legal norms that exist in society. There are a certain number of people ignoring such rules. These are individuals of different professions, levels of material wealth, and age categories. Antisocial behavior is a deliberate violation of laws and norms that has an active or passive effect on other members of society. People in whom it is observed do not follow established traditions. Therefore, others are negative towards them.

Features of antisocial individuals

Such individuals are characterized by such features:

1. Their actions are determined only by selfish needs.
2. Such people seek by any means to get rid of what provokes negative experiences.
3. Such personalities are impulsive, like to live in the present day, prone to deception.
4. Antisocial behavior is actions that are associated with instability of self-esteem. Such people react violently to failure, dissatisfied with themselves.
5. They do not seek to change, even if they have already been punished for bad misconduct.
6. These individuals easily communicate in companies gathering for the purpose of entertainment.
7. Such people are unfamiliar with feelings such as shame, compassion, repentance.

The most common episodes of antisocial behavior in adolescents.

This is due to the fact that in the puberty there are changes in the psyche of the individual, it becomes sensitive to external influences.

Psychiatrists Opinion

There are many circumstances that contribute to the development of deviations. Experts argue that it can be associated with biological reasons, the characteristics of education, a certain way of thinking. There are two concepts - asocial behavior and antisocial. How do they differ? Many scientists associate these phenomena with the presence of mental disorders. Psychiatrists distinguish two types of individuals with such abnormalities. According to this point of view, asocial individuals include:

1. People who isolated themselves from society. They have a special inner world. Contacts with others are almost not supported. The experiences of such individuals, their emotions, attachments do not appear externally and are unknown to others. The isolation of such individuals does not cause them suffering. Low-income people with this deviation become vagabonds. The rich gain a reputation as eccentric eccentrics.
2. Persons who are unable to establish contact with others. They cannot function normally in society and suffer from this great suffering. Such an individual perceives any interaction as torture. Therefore, he is doing his best to hide from others. People around notice strange things in human behavior (excessive shyness, unceremoniousness, ridiculous actions) and also instinctively avoid communication. As a result, the antisocial personality is deprived of friendship, romantic relationships. Such people are forced to spend a lot of time at home, not to go anywhere. They worry about the fact that they are unable to realize themselves in work, to create a family.

These types of individuals do not adversely affect society.

According to psychiatrists, cases of antisocial behavior are characterized by negative effects on others. Such manifestations include offenses and criminal acts. Experts attribute such deviations to the development of a serious mental illness.

Varieties of antisocial behavior

Depending on what areas of society are affected by the violation, there are 4 forms:

1. Wrongful acts. These include the theft of cars, motorbikes, insult, fights.
2. Criminal actions. This is an act contrary to the laws established in the state. Such manifestations include violence, robbery, banditry, racketeering, murder.
3. Immoral behavior (not consistent with generally accepted moral standards). This is homosexuality, promiscuous sex, refusal to work, vagrancy.
4. Addiction. Its types include the use of alcohol-containing products and drugs, addiction to computer games, anorexia and bulimia.

Signs of Violations

Symptoms of antisocial behavior may be different. Some individuals have such deviations as vagrancy, addictions, the use of obscene language, aggression against relatives. Such manifestations cause suffering only to those who live next to this person or communicate closely with him. Other signs (telephone jokes, graffiti, vandalism, theft) are offenses. Persons who commit these acts end up in the police station.

How to recognize abnormalities at an early age?

Antisocial behavior is a disorder that often begins to manifest itself in childhood. Toddlers who have a disorder are not interested in the lessons or activities in the preschool. They show cruelty to animals, members of their family, and weaker peers.

Such children often steal money and things from peers or loved ones, are prone to tantrums, fights, and insult others. At school, they have difficulties with study, they conflict with classmates and teachers. Already at the beginning of the puberty, they are addicted to nicotine and alcohol-containing products. Why do such violations occur?

Reasons for the development of deviations

Antisocial behavior is a pathology that appears as a result of various factors. These circumstances include:

1. Medical reasons. These include diseases of the mother during the period of gestation, poor heredity, mental disorders, as well as infectious ailments and mechanical injuries of the head suffered in childhood.
2. Pedagogical factors. This is a bad example of relatives and lack of education. Some mothers and fathers over-guard their children or, on the contrary, place too high demands on them. This contributes to the formation of behavioral disorders.
3. Causes of a psychological nature. This is a combination of medical factors and mistakes in education.
4. Social circumstances. These include financial distress, bullying by classmates. The presence of relatives suffering from alcohol or drug addiction also has a negative effect on the child.

So, the development of deviations in many cases is associated with an unfavorable microclimate in the human family.

The influence of the close environment

The biggest role in shaping the character of a minor is played by his mother and father. These are people with whom the child constantly lives and spends a significant part of time. Educators argue that not only parents with alcohol or drug addiction contribute to the development of antisocial behavior in adolescents. Examples of such deviations can be found in families, which at first glance seem prosperous. The fact is that the wrong style of education negatively affects the personality of the child.

This happens when parents are emotionally distant from each other or show callousness in relation to their son or daughter. Excessive custody, the desire to control the teenager also causes him to protest. Psychological, physical or sexual violence is reflected especially strongly in the development of the child’s psyche. Such boys and girls show a craving for alcohol, drug addiction, a tendency to erratic intimate contacts and escape from home.

Poverty also negatively affects self-esteem and peer relationships. Low-income children are ridiculed. Another factor contributing to the development of deviations is emotional shock. This may be the development of a disease or mental disorder in one of the family members, the death of a relative, divorce, a new marriage of a father or mother.

Types of antisocial behavior in adolescents

Types of this deviation include:

1. Nicotine addiction. A teenager begins to smoke to feel like an adult. To buy cigarettes, money is used that parents give for other purposes. Addiction to nicotine is associated with unpleasant symptoms (nausea, cough, dizziness). But, in spite of this, adolescents quickly form addiction, dangerous pathologies develop.
2. Addiction to alcohol. Today she is often found among young people. In many companies, drinking is considered to be an integral attribute of adulthood and fun.
   
   Alcoholism in people of transitional age is formed quickly due to the immaturity of the body.
3. Drug use.
4. Vagrancy. It arises as a way of leaving society, avoiding problems in school and family.
5. Violations of a sexual nature. This is a group of diseases, including intimate contacts between persons of the same sex, attraction to animals, fetishism, demonstration of genitals in public places.
6. Suicide attempts. This form of antisocial behavior in adolescents arises from the death of close relatives, failures in personal life, loneliness, addictions.
7. Fears and beliefs in the presence of physical disability. These deviations contribute to the isolation of the teenager from their peers, isolation.
8. Strange hobbies, fantasies.
9. Addiction to gambling.
10. Offenses.

Antisocial and deviant behavior

These words have much in common. However, the second concept, as a rule, means actions that harm others. These include offenses (delinquent behavior) and crimes. The first is manifested in the form of arson, fights, insults and theft. The second is connected with more serious actions, as a result of which a person can get into the dock.

According to statistics, such acts are most common among males aged 14 to 29 years. Antisocial delinquent behavior is a pathology that is formed under the influence of social disasters, family troubles, low incomes, and ignoring the problems that arise in the young generation.

Diagnostic measures

To identify deviations, specialists use several methods. These include:

1. Conversations and observation. In the process of talking with the parents of the teenager, the features of the relationship between family members are clarified. The psychologist also draws attention to the patient's behavior (adequacy of judgments, emotions, the presence of aggression).
2. Profiles. This method allows you to determine the propensity for offenses, cruelty, addictions, pathologies of the sexual sphere.
3. Additional information received from doctors, district officers, teachers.

Methods of dealing with violations

The following methods are used to solve the problem:

1. Behavioral therapy sessions. They are used to form reflection in a teenager, the ability to communicate adequately.
2. Psychotherapeutic sessions with relatives of the patient.
3. Classes of a creative nature (painting, modeling, theatrical performances).
4. Treatment with medication. Used in case of detection of mental disorders.

How to prevent the development of violations?

Prevention of antisocial behavior is as follows:

1. Parents and educators should only praise a child if he has earned approval.
2. Negative character traits, addictions and unseemly actions cannot be ignored.
3. You must always be ready for open and calm communication with your child. He must feel that he is supported and respected.
4. Try to spend as much time as possible with your son or daughter.
5. Particular attention should be paid to creating a positive atmosphere in the family, mutual understanding, organization of joint leisure.
6. Parents and pedagogical workers need to instill in their children a desire for creativity, sports, and intellectual activity.