Attachment Disorders and Adolescent Violence

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This paper discusses the growing violent behavior of adolescents with issues, such as date rape, teen relationship abuse, and other examples of adolescent violence. It looks at how the focus is currently on what causes the teens to become violent, and attention is turning to the history of their lives. It presents an examination of how a compromised early attachment relationship becomes a risk factor in a child's development by adolescence. The writer explores the theory that such a relationship sets the teens on a course for subsequent violence, including domestic violence and non-intimate violence.

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"Attachment disorders are currently being looked at as precursors to adolescent violence. Adolescent violence comes in many forms(Marcus, 2001). Adolescents can be violent in an overt manner such as violent bullying of peers, or even in the extreme such as a Columbine situation. Adolescents who are violent are not always in the spotlight however. Teens who beat their significant others, as well as teens who rape are considered violent teens. It is important to pinpoint the causative or contributory factors to adolescent teens for the purpose of being able to treat it before it occurs."

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