[Aggression in children and adolescents].

Abstract

The author defines the terms aggression and aggressiveness. She discusses the relationships between aggressiveness and neurotransmitters, organic change, aggression and punishment. Aggression as a feature of developmental change, aggression and social ethology, development of violence. She describes the problem of self-damage and self-injuring behaviour. The author analyzes comprehensive therapy of aggressive behaviour-preventive, family, behavioural and psychopharmacological treatment (neuroleptics, incl. atypical ones-doses used in children and adolescents, antidepressants, incl. AD of the third generation, anxiolytics, incl. atypical ones, antiepileptics and lithium). Psychopharmaceutical preparations in self-injuring behaviour are reviewed and problems of external stimulation are analyzed.