AGGRESSION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: PREVALENCE, CLINICAL AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS, OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISEASE DETECTION AND PREVENTION
The research deals with prevalence of aggression in children with psychopathology treated in Sukhareva Scientific and Practical Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Case histories of 2434 patients aged from 6 to 18 admitted to the centre in 2014 had been analyzed using acontinuous study. The extracted data revealed aggression in 661 (27.2%) patients. The cohort of 67 children and adolescents selected by random sampling technique among patients hospitalized with complains on aggressive behavior was studied. In the cohort 45 patients (67.2%) revealed impulse disorders of aggressive and sadistic spectrum.