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DEVIANT BEHAVIOURS IN ADOLESCENCE
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DEVIANT BEHAVIOURS IN ADOLESCENCE
Ignazio Maniscalco 1
1. Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of Bolzano (SABES-ASDAA) Teaching Hospital of Paracelsus Medical
University (PMU) Bolzano, Italy, Bolzano, ITA
Corresponding author: Ignazio Maniscalco, maignazio@inwind.it
Abstract
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Categories: Psychiatry, Psychology
Keywords: social psychiatry, clinical psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, bio-psycho-social model, psychiatry
& mental health
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Often deviant social behaviour in adolescence is part of typical family relationship dynamics. These are
families characterised by rigidity, emotional detachment and excessive involvement. These characteristics
do not allow the adolescent to experience either a sense of belonging to the family or an independence from
it, leading to forms of discomfort. Family structures such as the one described appear to be poorly organised
and incapable of responding to the various developmental tasks required and, consequently, not ready to
face the various evolutionary changes required. The deviant behaviour of the young person may therefore
indicate an impulse towards change, albeit a dangerous one.
There are no typical family structures:
- We often work with families where one parent is "marginal" and the other is extremely involved. The latter
tends to be the child's accomplice and protector. A possible sibling may take on the role of the "model child",
leaving the other as the "black sheep". These are situations of strong disagreement, in which the authority
and social competence of the parents is increasingly questioned, and they often resort to a lax style and
escape from their parental role. Deviant behaviour takes on a demonstrative meaning and a challenge to
change rigid relationship modalities.
- In other cases, deviant behaviour may occur in response to some stressful paranormative events, such as
death or separation from an important reference figure. Such changes require the adolescent and the family
to restructure rules, methods of communication, ways of negotiating conflicts, to the extent that deviance
can be a restructuring and reorganising resource.
- The deviant behaviour of the adolescent can also be inserted in a disengaged and disorganised family
structure, in which both parents are not involved in the management of the family group. These are families
in which there is a lack of cohesion, a lack of emotional exchange and communication between the different
members who make up the family.
- Then there are cases of deviant adolescents, born and raised in "normal" families, but belonging to the
culture of deviance. In these families, it is the adults who bring the children "into the circle" of deviance.
Various studies have shown that irregular behaviour in adolescence is widespread but not particularly
dangerous unless it takes on the stable character of a "deviant career".
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