Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Describe the multiple types and prevalence rates of trauma that impact children and adolescents.
- Discern which traumatic experiences are most harmful to young people and how multiple traumas over time and comorbidity impact delinquency development.
- Summarize the ongoing problem and link between maltreatment and delinquency.
- Explain what post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is and how it both manifests itself and its prevalence in the child and adolescent population.
- Explicate how maltreatment impacts both primary and secondary student school performance.
- Understand how and why some young people are resilient to trauma experiences.