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Preschool children often demonstrate behaviors like obstinacy, defiance, disobedience, loss of temper, that may be treated as troublesome. Nevertheless, distinguishing normal misbehavior from markers of disruptive behavior disorders is very important. Typical for that period of development behavioral problems are transient, but clinical symptoms of disorders are stable and need professional treatment. Poor emotional competence in preschool children is associated with the risk of disruptive behavior disorders. Behavioral dysfunctions are affected by the constellation of many factors both biological and social. Among them, the quality of parent-child and teachers-child relations is underlined. The parenting style or teacher’s reactions charged with negative emotionality, punishment and coercion seem to be especially adverse for the development of preschoolers’ emotional competence. Children may manifest some impairments in social interactions and self-control. The identification of key behavioral markers of preschool conduct disorders and signs predicting the later disruptive behavioral disorders enable early professional interventions.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2018.31.3.231-245
Date of publication: 2019-02-26 17:52:11
Date of submission: 2018-07-03 13:30:20
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