ODD
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
This is the earliest age at which a diagnosis of Intermittent Explosive Disorder can be made, according to the DSM-5.
What is 6 years old?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
A set of ongoing emotional and behavioral problems that occurs in children and teens. Problems may involve defiant or impulsive behavior, drug use, or criminal activity.
What is conduct disorder?
(U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d.)
The impulse control disorder defined by repeated, uncontrollable theft of items that are not needed for personal use or monetary gain.
What is kleptomania?
(Grant & Odlaug, 2008)
People with this disorder deliberately and repeatedly set fires and feel tension or emotional arousal before the act.
What is pyromania?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
This ethical practice requires social workers to examine how diagnostic labels (like “conduct disorder”) may shape teachers’ and clinicians’ expectations, potentially worsening academic and behavioral evaluations for youth.
What is avoiding labeling bias through culturally competent practice? (e.g., use person-first language, discuss context, monitor expectancy effects).
(Franz et al., 2023)
To meet DSM-5 criteria for Oppositional Defiant Disorder, the child’s symptoms must occur with at least one person other than this family member.
What is a sibling?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
IED includes two types of aggression: verbal aggression and this, which can include physical harm to people, animals, or property.
What is physical aggression?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
The gender that is most commonly diagnosed with CD
What is male?
(Brown, Jansen, Lin, Rogers, & Xu, 2024)
Research shows that individuals with kleptomania frequently also have disorders such as mood, anxiety, eating, or substance-use disorders.
What are comorbid psychiatric disorders?
(McElroy, Hudson, Pope, & Keck, 1991)
Before setting a fire, individuals with this disorder experience increasing tension or emotional arousal, followed by this emotional response once the fire is set.
What is pleasure, gratification, or relief?
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)
Across US samples, Black youth are more likely to receive disruptive behavior diagnoses and face harsher school discipline than White peers an equity concern that intersects directly with CD assessment.
What are racial disparities in diagnosis and discipline that require bias-aware assessment and advocacy?
(Savage et al., 2024)
ODD symptoms typically appear during this developmental period, often before early adolescence.
What is preschool or early school age?
(Noordermeer, Luman, & Oosterlaan, 2016)
A person with a history of trauma, physical abuse, or this familial factor is at increased risk for developing IED.
What is a first-degree relative with a history of IED?
(McCloskey, Berman, & Coccaro, 2015)
_____ children are overrepresented among people with CD diagnoses at a rate of nearly 2‐fold compared to children in other racial groups.
What is black?
(Brown, Jansen, Lin, Rogers, & Xu, 2024)
This gender tends to have a higher prevalence of kleptomania, often beginning in late adolescence or early adulthood.
What are females?
(Grant & Odlaug, 2008)
To meet DSM-5 criteria for Pyromania, the fire-setting behavior cannot be explained by these three things: financial gain, political ideology, or this type of crime.
What is criminal conduct (i.e arson for revenge or concealment)?
(Johnson & Netherton, 2016)
A 2024 rapid review found most CD studies failed to report race/ethnicity and co-occurring conditions, limiting ethical, evidence-based care for diverse youth.
What is inadequate race/ethnicity reporting in the CD literature that calls for better inclusive research and cautious generalization?
(Brown et al., 2024)
Children exposed to inconsistent discipline, harsh parenting, or parental mental illness are at increased risk of developing this behavioral disorder.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
(Lin, He, Heath, Chi, & Hinshaw, 2022)
IED must be distinguished from this mood disorder, which can also feature irritability and aggressive behavior during manic episodes.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
(Coccaro, 2010)
In addition to cognitive therapy, these two evidence-based approaches are often used to treat Conduct Disorder and focus on improving parenting skills and family relationships.
What are Parent Management Training (PMT) and Functional Family Therapy?
(Jacob, 2006)
Kleptomaniacs are responsive to this model of therapy.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
(Grant & Odlaug, 2008)
In Pyromania, this type of fascination or attraction is often seen toward fire and its situational contexts such as watching, setting, or being near fires.
What is a fascination with fire and fire-related stimuli?
(Johnson & Netherton, 2016)
To reduce misdiagnosis of CD among culturally diverse families, this treatment stance builds in flexibility around values, parenting norms, and acculturation stress within family-based work.
What is culturally informed family-based treatment?
(Santisteban et al., 2012)
This evidence-based approach focuses on improving parent-child interactions, teaching positive discipline, and enhancing emotional regulation in children with ODD.
What is Parent Management Training (or behavioral parent training)?
(Paiva et al., 2024)
Individuals with IED often experience significant impairment in interpersonal relationships, work, or school settings due to this core issue.
What is poor impulse control?
(Kessler et al., 2006)
The percentage of children with the diagnosis of conduct disorder who may grow into adults with antisocial personality disorder.
What is 40 percent?
(Jacob, 2006)
Studies indicate that people with kleptomania may show differences in the brain region involved in decision-making, impulse control, and reward processing.
What is prefrontal cortex?
(Cleveland Clinic, 2025)
Treatment for Pyromania is understudied, however, one study showed promising results with the medication Topiramate and this treatment therapy.
What are Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
(Johnson & Netherton, 2016)
Ethical analysis of the “school-to-prison pipeline” shows that exclusionary discipline is linked with later incarceration an environmental risk that assessment for CD should document and address.
What is integrating school discipline history into assessment/treatment planning to mitigate pipeline risks?
(Hemez et al., 2019)