Child Psychology Certification Course: Aggression Prevention

Define aggression as intentional, hostile behavior aimed at causing damage or pain and asserting power. Split aggression into instrumental and impulsive forms, with active or passive, direct or indirect modes.

Explore environmental factors reinforcing violence, including socio-economic crises, mass media, and globalization, and examine impact on values, faith, and community cohesion, and how family, films, and digital games model aggression.

Identify diagnostic standards of aggression in children by detailing persistent behaviors such as verbal threats, physical confrontation, cruelty to people or animals, and truancy lasting six months or more.

Identify features of aggressive children who perceive dangerous and hostile situations, blame others, lack guilt, show low empathy and emotional control, and whose family dynamics reinforce aggression.

Explain how victims of violence experience acute stress reactions at the trauma moment and may develop post-traumatic stress disorder, with symptoms such as numbness, fear, mood changes, and social withdrawal.

Identify warning signs of violence victims in children and adolescents, including emotional dependence, avoidance of eye contact, aggressive and self-destructive behaviors, eating and substance use disorders, and social withdrawal.

Teachers reduce access to victims by separating aggressors and potential victims and setting realistic norms, while using non-verbal signals, rehearsed calm responses, and never leaving students unattended.

Explore conceptual models to prevent and address aggressive and problematic behavior through strategies like ignoring, verbal punishments, deprivation of privileges, time-out, oversaturation, and penalties.

Apply positive reinforcement and social encouragement to stimulate socially acceptable alternatives to problematic behavior, using negotiation, planned rewards, and mentoring through observation and modeling.

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