Teen Case

Teen aggression has become more and more prevalent today, and the reasons behind a teen's aggression can be exhausting for everyone involve; especially when violence is involved. Some teens may show bouts of depression and are ignited by certain events that have happened in his or her life. Understanding an individual's personality and getting to know why he or she is either introverted or extroverted may help therapist to come to a conclusion to help those affects by certain events that may trigger aggression. According to Cervone, and Pervin, (2010), personality is the psychological quality(s) of an individual's pattern of how one thinks, feels, and behaves. An individual's personality defines who he/she is by actions, emotions, and how individuals relate in a social setting through behaviors or how an individual reacts. How individuals relate to life around them will define his/her personality (Cervone & Pervin, 2010). To be clear; people might think an individual is quite or aggressive because one may not speak out or talk or responds low tones; however, one may act out in aggressive behavior.

Individuals may be more reserved; however, a person may have to be loud by "acting aggressive" in a social setting to prove a point. Perhaps one acts aggressive because this is how he or she is due to circumstances or possible chemical imbalances. This does not mean the individual has a bad personality, and it is not genetical. It simply means how a person responds to the environment around them. A personality psychologist might say that the characteristics of an individual are unique, as people are different. However, the personality of one that becomes aggressive may be triggered by present social events or past circumstances, which happened in his or her childhood (Cervone & Pervin, 2010).

According to Smith, Fisher, Gillespie, Beery, & Gates, (2013) adolescent teens can have a critical health issue is one is exposed to aggression. Those exposed in 2012 "in the United States" alone (p.243), have a critical levels of violence when aggression is involved. The incidents, which bring aggression to a child; it can become a learned behavior and can have detrimental outcome unless someone take measures to help teen aggression in individuals to rid it from his or her life. Exposure to such aggression can happen at home, in the workplace, and in school and the community. (Smith et al, 2013) claim, "An emerging context for aggression exposure is in the workplace" those exposed are predominately age 16-18 who experience workplace anger. Adolescent teens 13-16 predominately experience aggression at home. When school aggression is evident, "education and training are needed within the school setting to promote appropriate responses to various forms of aggression encountered by adolescents" (Smith et al, 2013 p.248), It is also addressed if a child needs further counseling outside of school counselors such as those used in a one-on-one therapy session, with a private psychologist. "Implications for school health professionals' involvement in addressing responses to such aggression and further research opportunities are explored." (Smith et al, 2013, p. 252) Therefore, addressing why teen aggression happens more often today, then not, is the basis for this study. As children begin to develop many things can cause aggression, from detachment issues, to new environments. Such as divorce and separate households. According to Young, Nelson, Hottle, Warburton, & Young, (2011) children are vulnerable to many changes, and because of this, adjustments have to be made either by counseling with parents, and developing a possible plan of action. Or perhaps by digging into a more in-depth way that possibly prevents aggression from escalating, or if there is a chemical imbalance of the brain, which may be the cause for aggression outbursts. Then further methods may need to take place. Purpose

The purpose of this study is to find out why aggression in teens can cause fundamental issues in ones personality when dealing with everyday life; and how this aggression can carry over to adulthood and affect one's lifespan. This experimental study is to examine the hypothesis that teenage adolescents who receive one-on-one therapy will recover from aggression faster than those who only receive group therapy. With the hypothesis in mind, it was necessary to devise an experiment to test that idea. In an experiment there needs to be a control group, a study group, and at least one variable that is manipulated to test the hypothesis. For the purposes of this experiment it was deemed that using teenage adolescents ranging from the ages of 13 and 18, who use the services of a private practice psychologist and those who used group therapy services from a local facility for troubled teens.

The goal was to get a total population of 10 teens from each facility, giving sample population of 20, with a study group of 10, and a control

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