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DEFINITIONS OF TERMS 51
hostile teasing of other children are common. These patients usually
have no consistent parental acceptance and discipline. This diagnosis
should be distinguished from Antisocial personality (q.v.), Runaway
reaction of childhood (or adolescence) (q.v.), and Group delinquent
reaction of childhood (or adolscence) (q.v.).
308.5* Group delinquent reaction of childhood (or adolescence
) *
Individuals with this disorder have acquired the values, behavior,
and skills of a delinquent peer group or gang to whom they are loyal
and with whom they characteristically steal, skip school, and stay
out late at night. The condition is more common in boys than girls.
When group delinquency occurs with girls it usually involves sexual
delinquency, although shoplifting is also common.
308.9* Other reaction of childhood (or adolescence)*
Here are to be classified children and adolescents having disorders
not described in this group but which are nevertheless more serious
than transient situational disturbances and less serious than psychoses,
neuroses, and personality disorders. The particular disorder should
be specified.
X. CONDITIONS WITHOUT MANIFEST PSYCHIATRIC DIS-
ORDER AND NON-SPECIFIC CONDITIONS (316*—318* )
316* Social maladjustments without manifest psychiatric disorder
This category is for recording the conditions of individuals who are
psychiatrically normal but who nevertheless have severe enough problems
to warrant examination by a psychiatrist. These conditions may
either become or precipitate a diagnosable mental disorder.
316.0* Marital maladjustment*
This category is for individuals who are psychiatrically normal but
who have significant conflicts or maladjustments in marriage.
316.1* Social maladjustment*
This category is for individuals thrown into an unfamiliar culture
(culture shock) or into a conflict arising from divided loyalties to
two cultures.