Aggressive Behaviour in Children

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Updated December 2011

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Title:   Feeling angry
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Although parents usually look forward to parenting as something that will be mostly happy, there are times when all parents feel very angry with their children or even that they don't like their children.
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Family conflict - how to cope
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Conflict can happen when family members have different views or beliefs that clash. Peaceful resolution needs skills in open, two-way communication, negotiation, compromise and respect for the other person' s point of view. Transitioning from one stage of life to another is often a time of additional stress and conflict. Seek professional advice if you think you need help to resolve long-standing issues of conflict.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Conduct disorder
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Conduct disorder (CD) refers to a set of problem behaviours exhibited by children and adolescents, which may involve the violation of a person, their rights or their property. Behaviours may include bullying, cruelty to animals or people, and law-breaking activities such as shoplifting, vandalism and deliberately lighting fires.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Anger - being the boss of your anger
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sometimes you just get so angry that you feel like you are going to burst! It seems like your anger will be the boss of you, instead of you being the boss of your anger. What can you do to work through that anger and keep yourself and others safe?
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   What is bullying? - Children
Publisher:   Headroom (South Australia)
Description:   These days, bullying is taken seriously by schools, families, and the whole community because it stops you from feeling safe and happy.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Tantrums
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A tantrum is a young child' s way of physically expressing feelings such as anger, frustration, hurt and being upset. The tantrum may include crying, screaming, punching and kicking. Temper tantrums are a normal part of the development of the young child. There are triggers that can make tantrums more likely including the child feeling stressed, hungry, tired, frustrated or overstimulated.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Managing temper problems - Parents
Publisher:   Headroom (South Australia)
Description:   For some children, inhibiting or restraining aggressive behaviours such as hitting, kicking and biting can be more difficult. Parents can help their child to develop inner control over these strong feelings.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Being teased
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sometimes everything seems to go wrong at once. Maybe the teacher is giving you a hard time. Maybe your parents are giving you a hard time. Maybe your brother/sister/cousin/best friend is giving you a hard time too.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Anger
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Everyone has feelings. Sometimes we feel sad or lonely. Sometimes we feel happy and excited. Sometimes we feel peaceful and contented. Sometimes we feel angry. Have you ever felt really angry about something?
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Tantrums
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Tantrums happen when people have frustration or stress that they cannot cope with. Children are different in how they react to frustration. It is important to remember that the anger of the tantrum is always mixed with another feeling.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Children biting
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Biting common young children troubling to parents. Biting is often very painful and frightening for a child who is bitten. It can also be frightening for the child who bites, because it upsets the other child and makes adults angry.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Talking through angry feelings
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Practical tips on coping with children's angry feelings, anger and temper tantrums.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Rough-and-tumble play
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   A guide to rough play and play fighting among children, discussing why children play rough and how to tell it apart from genuine aggression and real fighting.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Pinching, biting and hair pulling
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   A discussion of children biting and babies biting, children pinching and babies pinching, and children pulling hair and babies pulling hair. Includes ideas for how to stop biting, stop pinching, and stop hair-pulling in babies and children.
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Behaviour management
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Most young people have difficult or demanding behaviours at times. Testing limits is one of the ways they learn about acceptable behaviour as part of the normal process of growing up.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Violence is recognised as a major global public health problem, thus there has been much attention placed on interventions aimed at preventing aggressive and violent behaviour. As aggressive behaviour in childhood is considered to be a risk factor for v...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Smoking in early pregnancy - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A study has shown that smoking in early pregnancy doubles the risk of the children showing aggressive behaviour at age 5.
Date:   May 2002
Title:   Child aggression curbed by reduction in TV time - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Research in the USA has shown that excessive TV viewing may contribute to aggression in young people.
Date:   Feb 2002
Title:   What parents should know about bullying
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   How bullying can harm children and what parents can do about it.
Date:   Jan 2001
Title:   Before you hit a child: stop and think
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Children of all ages do things that make parents feel angry and frustrated - even a small baby's crying can be enough to make a tired, stressed parent lose his or her temper sometimes. Suggestions are given as alternatives to smacking or shaking children.
Date:   Jun 1997

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