Conduct Disorder Quiz

Characteristics of Conduct Disorder

• Behavior does not include excessive emotionality or anxiety.

Diagnostic Criteria

• At least three behaviors are required to cause clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.

Aggression to People or Animals

• Behaviors include bullying, threatening, or intimidating others, initiating physical fights, and using a weapon that can cause harm.
• Physically cruel behavior, such as hitting, biting, or kicking, or forcing someone into sexual activity.
• Forced someone into sexual activity.

Destruction of Property

• Behaviors include setting fires with the intention of causing damage, and deliberately destroying others' property.

Deceitfulness or Theft

• Behaviors include breaking into someone's house, car, or building, and lying to obtain goods or favors.

Serious Rule Violations

• Behaviors include staying out at night despite parental prohibition, and running away from home overnight.

Subtypes of Conduct Disorder

• Two subtypes: Childhood-Onset Type and Adolescent-Onset Type.

Childhood-Onset Type

• Characterized by onset of symptoms before age 10.
• Also known as the "early starter" type.
• Children with this type are more likely to display callous and unemotional traits.

Adolescent-Onset Type

• Characterized by onset of symptoms after age 10.
• Typically, these individuals do not display callous and unemotional traits.

Differences Between Subtypes

• The two subtypes differ in terms of age of onset and severity of symptoms.

Prevalence of Conduct Disorder

• Estimated prevalence in children and adolescents is around 4%.
• Prevalence tends to be higher in adolescence.

Gender Difference

• Conduct Disorder is more common in males.
• According to Loeber et al. (2000), the rates of the Adolescent-Onset Type are more similar in boys and girls.

Childhood Onset Type Characteristics

• Children with this type are more likely to display early temperamental characteristics such as irritability and hyperactivity.
• They tend to display poor social competence and attachment.
• They are more likely to display proactive aggression.
• Antisocial behavior tends to persist into adulthood.

Comorbid Disorders

• Disorders often comorbid or previously diagnosed in children with Childhood-Onset Type of Conduct Disorder include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), and Anxiety Disorders.
• Around 90% of individuals diagnosed with Conduct Disorder typically have a previous diagnosis of ODD.

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