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Understanding Aggression with Adolescent Girls: Implications for Policy and Practice

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 2001

Abstract

Seventy at-risk adolescent girls in 7 residential facilities were interviewed over a 12-month period. The girls were asked questions regarding experiences, thoughts, and feelings about physical and verbal fights with friends and parents. Results showed that many of these girls reported different reasons for starting and escalating verbal and physical fights, they had more negative feel-ings for verbal fights than for physical fights, and had similar thought pro-cesses during both kinds of fights. More girls acknowledged responsibility for starting fights with parents than they did with peers. Implications of the results for treatment of female young offenders and the development of public policy are discussed.

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Soixante-dix adolescentes à risque en provenance de 7 établissements résidentiels ont été interrogées sur une période de 12 mois. Les adolescentes ont répondu à des questions concernant leurs expériences, leurs pensées et leurs sentiments en ce qui a trait aux affrontements verbaux et physiques avec leurs amis et amies et les membres de leur famille. Les résultats obtenus dé-montrent que plusieurs adolescentes invoquent des motifs différents pour amorcer et prolonger les affrontements verbaux et physiques, que les adoles-centes entretiennent des sentiments plus négatifs envers les disputes verbales que les combats physiques et que le raisonnement est similaire pour les 2 types d'affrontements. Les adolescentes reconnaissent plus fréquemment avoir initié les affrontements avec les membres de leur famille qu'avec leurs pairs. L'article discute de l'impact de ces résultats sur le traitement des jeunes contrevenantes et le développement des politiques gouvernementales.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 20Number 2September 2001
Pages: 43 - 57

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Version of record online: 12 May 2009

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Anne L. Cummings
The University of Western Ontario
Alan W. Leschied
The University of Western Ontario

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