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The Varieties of Children's Behavioral Problems and Family Dynamics

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1440

Three groups of clinic children, separated by computer clustering of their symptoms, are described by the author. The overanxious children are likely to have an anxious infantilizing mother. The critical, depreciative, punitive, inconsistent mother or stepmother is typical for the unsocialized aggressive child. Socialized delinquents are likely to come from large families characterized by parental neglect and delegation of parental responsibilities. Their parental pathology is typically more paternal than maternal and frequently includes the alcoholic father or stepfather.

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