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Behavioural Disorders: The Historical

Perspective of the Largest City
of the Croatian Istria County

Mirjana Radetić-Paić
Jurja Dobrila University in Pula
miradet@unipu.hr

The goal of this research was to gain insight into the state and trends of certain
specific risks and behavioural disorders over the years in the area of the city
of Pula, with the purpose of monitoring changes that would provide guide-
lines for determining current needs, with a projection into the future of that
area. The data was collected based on an insight into five major studies of be-
havioural disorders during the last forty years. The results showed that the
trends are relatively uniform, with minor deviations over the years. The last
measurement, in which the growth of excessive alcohol consumption among
young people is enormous, stands out. Based on the obtained parameters, it
should be possible to access further research and create and implement a pro-
gramme of social measures and actions appropriate to the needs of the ob-
served population.
Keywords: behavioural disorders, city of Pula-Croatia, historical trends, preven-
tion, treatment

Introduction
For the past thirty years, special attention has been paid to risk factors for
the appearance and development of behavioural disorders in children and
young people. These risks factors set, in the emergence and development of
behavioural disorders, set conceptual frameworks that explain the action of
such factors, or apply knowledge about them in different conceptual frame-
works for their prevention. These risk factors are all influences that increase
the likelihood of serious difficulties in the process of socialization of children
and young people who are interacting, and in which we can distinguish two
groups (Coie et al. 1993 as cited in Kirby and Fraser 1997):

– risky traits or predispositions (e.g. gender, temperament, hyperactivity,
some cognitive difficulties),
– characteristics of the environment – environmental conditions that
have a direct and/or indirect effect on the total amount of risk (difficul-
ties and pathologies in family dynamics of any kind, poverty, etc.).

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