Recently antisocial behavior in children and adolescents represent a serious and pervasive social problem. But the progress in identifying effective treatments has been relatively slow. So this study aimed to characterize the current status of treatme...
Recently antisocial behavior in children and adolescents represent a serious and pervasive social problem. But the progress in identifying effective treatments has been relatively slow. So this study aimed to characterize the current status of treatment of antisocial aggressive behavior and to to identify promising approach based on contemporary research.
The treatment method is classified into three ways. That is, individual focused, family focused and community wide intervention. It is classified according to the three reasons of antisocial aggressive behaviour which classified arbitrarily.
Generally, individual focused treatment includes individual psychotherapy, group therapy, behavior therapy and social cognitive training. Family focused treatment includes parent management training and family therapy. Community based intervention focuses community activity programs to foster the competence of prosocial peer relations. In this intervention there can be used all of the methods to develop the prosocial behavior incompatible with antisocial behavior.
In conclusion, individual focused treatment is usually used in schools and social centers in korea. But among the individual focused treatment, social cognitive training has been used less than any other treatment. The reason why will be the lack of many social cognitive training program and of the teacher training for using it.
In familey focused treatment, parent management training is used in general. But it has not been treated systematically for the parents of the children who show antisocial behavior but treated as a parent education program. Also family therapy has been issued in counseling theory but not been treated for antisocial bebaviour. To use this treatment method, there needs more knowledge about our family system and characteristics.
Most of all, there are little community based interventions. Community based intervention could be the most effective method because of its preventive function. So in our society it will need more the support of community level to prevent and treat the antisocial aggressive behavior of the children and adolescents.