Specific learning difficulties, delinquency and mental disorders: (Dis)abilities and ghosts
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May 21, 2016
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Problem Statement: Learning disabilities constitute a continuity of complex disorders, which are associated with internalized and external behaviour problems.Purpose of the study: Τo compare the results of two surveys applied in Greece investigating the early role of learning difficulties in the onset of offending behaviours and mental disorders in adulthood. Methods: Through two retrospective studies: i. early problems of 117 Greek adult prisoners were evaluated and ii. 835 case histories of adults with mental disorders were analyzed. Findings and Results: With high statistical significance were observed: learning difficulties, family problems, behaviour, developmental, and psycho-emotional disorders. Conclusions and Recommendations: Both studies emphasized the importance of the complexity and the interrelatedness of learning difficulties, social and psycho-emotional disorders.
Keywords: Learning disabilities, mental disorders, delinquency, comorbidity.
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Willcutt, F., & Pennington, B. (2000). Psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents with reading disability. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 1039-1048.
World Health Organisation. (1993). ICD-10 Classifications of Mental and Behavioral Disorder: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organisation.
Zakopoulou, V., Pashou, T., Tzavelas, P., Christodoulides, P., Milona, A., Kolotoura, I. (2013). Learning difficulties: A retrospective study of their co morbidity and continuity as indicators of adult criminal behavior in 18 to 70-year-old prisoners. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(11), 3660-3671.
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