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At Risk Behaviors
From the Topic Lead
What do we know about At-Risk Behavior?
By Prof Rebecca Ang
Professor, Psychology and Child & Human Development, NIE, NTU
Published: 20 February 2023
At risk behaviors cover a tremendously broad scope including a range of behavioral and emotional disorders as well as conditions that warrant attention but do not necessarily result in a clinically diagnosable condition. Broadly, developmental child and adolescent psychopathology includes some disorders that are more externalizing in nature such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder, and other disorders that are more internalizing in nature such as Anxiety and Depression (Mash & Dozois, 2003).
Topic Lead
Rebecca P. Ang is a Professor at the Psychology and Child & Human Development Academic Group, NIE. She obtained her PhD in School Psychology (specializing in clinical child psychology) from Texas A & M University, USA. She is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist in the USA, and a Registered Psychologist in Singapore. Professor Ang is a well-cited researcher whose scholarly work has been published in top-tier journals. Her interdisciplinary expertise areas include (1) child/adolescent aggression, delinquency and antisocial behavior including interventions; (2) scale development and validation of measures assessing children/adolescents' attitudinal, behavioral and socioemotional adjustment, and (3) multisystemic support to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.
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Different word forms of “depression” can have different meanings. To the lay person, being “depressed” means feeling sad or more sad than usual. People are expected to experience feelings of sadness to different degrees in response to negative life events. However, in the clinical sense of the word...
Self-harm behaviors refer to a range of behaviors in which a person deliberately causes harm or injury to themselves, with or without suicidal intent (Nock et al., 2006; Uh et al., 2021). Such behaviors include cutting, hitting, burning, self-biting or scratching skin, pulling hair, over-dosing or self-poisoning, and deliberate acts of recklessness (Skegg, 2005). While many youth ..
Anxiety is a physiological response to a threatening situation. Most of us may experience normal anxiety which may serve to motivate us and mobilize us to action – for example when we are trying to meet a deadline. However, feelings of anxiety which arise ...
What do we know about ADHD in our learners
What do we know about Behavioural Disorders
By Dr Loh Pek Ru
Psychology and Child & Human Development, NIE, NTU
Published: 1 August 2022
ADHD is one of the most common childhood condition (APA, 2013) occurring in different cultures and countries (Biederman, 2005; Rhode et al., 2005). It has a worldwide prevalence estimate of 5. 29% (Polanczyk, de Lima, Horta & Biederman, 2007) and an estimate of 3% to 7% in school-age children (Faraone, Sergeant, Gillberg, & Biederman, 2003).
By A/P Yeo Lay See
Psychology and Child & Human Development, NIE, NTU
Published: 1 August 2022
Behavioural disorders fall into a category called ‘Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). A key characteristic is difficulty in controlling one’s emotions and behaviours. Under normal circumstances, over a long period of time, having a behaviour disorder can adversely affect a student’s day-to-day functioning ...
