Các mô hình hành vi cưỡng chế vừa mô tả là liên quan với các hệ thống niềm tin có vấn đề. Trẻ em mong đợi rằng, nếu họ vẫn tồn tại với các hành vi hung hăng đủ lâu, cha mẹ của họ sẽ ngừng sách nhiễu họ | 366 FAMILY THERAPY PRACTICE WITH CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PROBLEMS Belief Systems The coercive behaviour pattern just described is associated with problematic belief systems. Children come to expect that if they persist with aggressive behaviour long enough their parents will stop hassling them. Parents come to believe that if they give in to their children s aggression they will leave them in peace. Two other sets of beliefs common in families where conduct problem are the main concern also deserve mention. Parents of children with conduct problems may treat them punitively because they attribute their children s misbehaviour to negative intentions rather than to situational factors. That is they may hold the belief that their children are intrinsically bad or deviant rather than seeing the misbehaviour as a transient response to a particular set of circumstances from a child who is intrinsically good. Children with conduct problems probably because of their chronic exposure to punishment albeit ineffective punishment develop a belief that threatening social interactions are highly probable. Thus they become biased in the way they construe ambiguous social situations such that they are more likely to interpret these as threatening than benign. Because of this they are more likely to respond negatively to their parents teachers and peers. Predisposing Factors A wide variety of developmental contextual and constitutional factors may predispose parents and children to become involved in behaviour patterns and to develop belief systems that maintain conduct problems. These include early parent-child relationship factors characteristics of the child and the parent characteristics of the marriage and the family and features of the school peer group and wider community. Early Parent-Child Relationship Factors Abuse neglect and lack of opportunities to develop secure attachments are important aspects of the parent-child relationship that place youngsters at risk for .
