Address the role of aggression in childhood and evaluate whether a child who displays aggressive tendencies automatically transitions into an aggressive adolescent and adult.
Discuss environmental factors such as school environment and whether these cause a child to develop into the role of victim or bully. Bear in mind the differences in child and adolescent aggression and adult aggression and how they are classified differently within the DSM-5.
What factors could influence the level of aggression? Be sure to incorporate the Module Eight readings into your argument.
Specifically, your paper should address the following:
- Assess the role of aggression in childhood development.
- Evaluate environmental factors on aggression within each age range (childhood, adolescence, and adulthood) and how these factors may provide substantial exampling of positive and negative environmental influences (i.e., child becomes a victim or a bully).
- Describe child, adolescent, and adult aggression and provide relevant examples of how to recognize symptoms of aggression within each age range.
- Determine which factors influence aggression across each age range (childhood, adolescence, and adulthood) and link opinion to valid findings from scholarly research.
