The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.

Childhood-Onset

Winter

Volume 1

2013

Prior to age 10.

Type.

Disturbance in behavior.

Conduct Disorder
Disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
Aggression to people and animals: Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others, often initiates physical fights, uses weapons that cause serious physical harm to others (i.e., bat, guns, knives, bricks), physically cruel to animals and people, has forced someone into sexual activity, and has stolen while confronting a victim (i.e., armed robbery). Destruction of Property: deliberately sets fires to cause serious damage, deliberately destroys others property other than starting fires. Deceitfulness or theft: breaks into houses, cars and buildings, lies or cons others, shoplifts, and/or commits forgery. Serious Violations of rules: often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions, beginning before age thirteen, has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in parental or parental surrogate home without returning for a lengthy period, and is often truant from school, beginning at age thirteen.

Symptoms:
Aggression to people and animals Destruction of property Deceitfulness or theft Serious violations of rules
The primary feature of Conduct Disorder is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior by a child or teenager in which the basic rights of others or major ageappropriate societal norms or rules are violated. These behaviors fall into four groups: Aggressive conduct that causes or threatens physical harm to others or animals, non-aggressive conduct that causes property loss or damage, deceitfulness or theft, and serious violations of rules time and time again.

Treatment Options
Psychotherapy Family Therapy

RESOURCES:

Parentsmedguide.org AACAP.org Parent Management Training (PMT) apt.rcpsych.org

Medication Treatment
Psychotherapy Treatments: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Play Therapy

Parent Management Training (PMT): Fast Track Project: Intervention targeted to prevent externalizing disorders. Incredible Years Treatment Program: A multifaceted treatment approach for young children with conduct disorder. Medication Treatments: Psycho-stimulants Mood Stabilizers Anti-psychotics

Family Therapy:

Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2011). The effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on the development of conduct disorder across childhood. Child Development, 82 (1), 331-345. Scott, S. (2008). An update on interventions for conduct disorder. In Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (14th edition), pp. 61-70. Scott, S. (2002) Parent training programmes. In Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (4th edition) (eds M. Rutter & E. Taylor), 949967. Blackwell.

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Karen Elise Parker Anne Arundel Community College EDU 214