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Child And Adolescent Violence
Child and adolescent violence is a growing problem in today's society. Why do children become violent? Doctors and scientists have found that there are many causes for aggressive behavior in children and have developed ways of preventing children from becoming violent. These causes are biochemical, psychological, and sociological. It is important to learn the causes, the effects, and the treatments of violent behavior because it is such a growing problem in the modern world. According to Kotulak, scientists have found that the chemical serotonin, which is found in our bodies, can control violent tendencies in humans (p. 65). They have also found that children with low serotonin levels turn out to have more violent and aggressive behavior than those children who have high serotonin levels ( p. 66). "Several studies suggest that threatening environments can trigger serotonin imbalances in genetically susceptible people, laying the biochemical foundation for a lifetime of violent behavior." (Cadillac, p. 65) The way children learn to be violent is through imitation (Feldman, p. 207). In other words, they do what they see. Albert Bandura describes this imitation as Observational Learning in which a child watches an adult or another child perform an act and then the child tries to imitate that act him/herself (Feldman, p. 207). Feldman described an experiment in which Bandura showed that because of observational learning, children will commit violent 2 acts after observing aggressive behavior by others (p. 207). "In what is now considered a classic experiment, young children saw a film of an adult wildly hitting a 5-foot-tall inflatable punching toy called a Bobo doll (Bandura, Ross, 1963a, 1963b)." Later the children were given the opportunity to play with the Bobo doll themselves, and sure enough, they displayed the same kind of behavior, in some cases mimicking the aggressive behavior almost identically (Feldma... Please login to view comments from other users.
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