The determination of parent attitude and childhood trauma in adolescent pushed into crime

Objective: This study was conducted to determine parent attitude and childhood traumas of adolescents pushed into crime who came to the policlinic of child and adolescent psychiatry for judicial evaluation. Method: Of this descriptive cross-sectional study sample was included 45 adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years, came with their parents to the psychiatric outpatient clinic of child, pushed into crime. Data were collected with Introductory Information Form, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Parents Attitude Research Instrument Scale. To evaluation of the data, descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney-U, Kruskal Wallis Variance analysis and Pearson correlation analysis were used. Results:84.4 % of adolescent who joined the research were 15-17 age, 60.0% of them were male and 57.8% of them were not unable to continue schooling. The mean of trauma questionnaire of adolescent was found 54.42±7.53 (middle). It was found that sexual abuse’s median points of adolescent who were unable to continue schooling, had a poor commination with father, and physical abuse’s median points of adolescent who lived with their family, and physical neglect’s median points of adolescent who graduated from primary school, and emotional abuse’s median points of adolescent whose father showed irrelevant attitude, and emotional neglects’ median points of adolescent who have three or more sisters/brothers, whose mothers showed unbalanced and inconsistent attitude were higher than other’s significantly (p<0.05). Discussion: Adolescent who pushed into crime experienced middle level childhood trauma. The repressive-irrelevant parental attitude, unable to continue schooling, poor communication with the father, being in the crowded family, having psychiatric diagnosis from childhood are predictors of childhood mental trauma

The profiles of children pushed to crime who are treated in a regional psychiatric hospital in Turkey

WOS: 000388115900009Objective: The study was conducted to determine the profiles of the children pushed into crime who treated in psychiatric hospital between the years of 2010-2014. Methods: The study, designed as a Retrospective cohort, was conducted by examining the file records of 144 adolescents/children pushed into crime. These outpatient or inpatient adolescents / children were treated as forensic case in a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Units in a regional psychiatric hospital between the years of 2010-2014. Results: 79.9% of investigated cases were men and their average age was 15.33 +/- 1.54. It was determined that 59.0% of the cases did not attend school while the treatment period because of the legal cause and 13.2% of these cases worked as a laborer before. 65.3 % them living with their family. Of 72.2% adolescents have negative relationship with their family. 11.8% of adolescents fathers' have alcohol-substance and 4.9% of adolescent fathers' have abuse and legal problems. 70.8% adolescents have diagnosis of chronic mental illness, 13.9% of them has more than one psychiatric diagnosis. 81.2's% adolescents have committed crimes for the first time and 18.8% of hem has repeated crime stories. It was determined that adolescents who have migration story and bad family relationships in their past involved in the crimes. Conclusion: It was determined that many of the adolescents pushed in to crime have mental disorder, their academic success and parents' educational level are low, they have past migration story and the adolescents having a negative family relationships commit repetitive crime