Conduct Disorder

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder

(ODD)
 Age-inappropriate, stubborn, hostile, and defiant
behavior, including:
 losing temper
 arguing with adults
 active defiance or refusal to comply
 deliberately annoying others
 blaming others for mistakes or misbehavior
 being “touchy” or easily annoyed
 anger and resentfulness
 spitefulness or vindictiveness
Conduct Disorder (CD)
 A repetitive and persistent pattern of violating basic
rights of others and/or age-appropriate societal norms or
rules, including:
 aggression to people and animals (e.g., bullying,
threatening, fighting, using a weapon)
 destruction of property (e.g., deliberate fire setting)
 deceitfulness or theft (e.g., “conning” others,
shoplifting, breaking into others’ property)
 serious violations of rules (e.g., running away,
truancy, staying out at night without permission)
Characteristics of Conduct Disorder

 Behavioral manifestations:
 Aggression
 Defiance
 Dimensions
 Severity
 Frequency
 Intensity
 breadth
Criteria for Conduct Disorder
Costs to Society
 Large – see overhead
 Costs for one youth over a million dollars
Etiology/Risk Factors
 Biological – lots of ??s
 Correlations are not well understood
 Psychological/Personality Factors
 Perceived hostility
 Accepting of aggression
 Problem solving
 Early temperament & learning
Etiology/Risk Factors cont’
 Parents/Socialization
 Lack of attention and/or inconsistency
 Peers
 poverty
 Environmental/Situational Factors
 Alcoholor drug abuse
 Access to weapons
 crowds
Stability of Disorder
1. Discipline problems
2. Breadth of problems

3. Predictors:
1. Age of onset
2. Breadth of deviance
3. Parent characteristics
Prevalence & Gender
Differences
 Prevalence
 2%-6% for CD
 12% for ODD
 Gender differences
 in childhood, antisocial behavior 3-4 times more
common in boys
 differences decrease/disappear by age 15
 boys remain more violence-prone throughout lifespan;
girls use more indirect and relational forms of
aggression
Developmental Course
 Earliest sign usually difficult temperament in infancy
 Two Pathways
 life-course-persistent (LCP) path begins at an early
age and persists into adulthood
 adolescent-limited (AL) path begins around puberty
and ends in young adulthood (more common and less
serious than LCP)
 Often negative adult outcomes, especially for those on
the LCP path
Parenting Factors
1. Coercion-escalation hypothesis
2. Why punishment does not work for
families in this pattern of interaction
Causes of Conduct Problems
 Genetic Influences
 biologically-based traits like difficult early
temperament or hyperactivity-impulsivity may
predispose certain children
 adoption and twin studies support genetic
contribution, especially for overt behaviors
 different pathways reflect the interaction
between genetic and environmental risk and
protective factors
Treatment
 3 empirically supported treatments
1. Parent management training
2. Problem solving skills training
3. Multi-systemic therapy

Parent-child interaction therapy also promising


Limited empirical support for wilderness
programs and residential treatment

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