Symptoms
Behavior involves meanness and violence toward people or pets.
What is aggression?
A persistent and repetitive pattern of behavior where the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms are violated.
What is conduct disorder?
This common type of "talk therapy" helps a person change negative thinking patterns to solve problems and manage anger better.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Children with conduct disorder often struggle with this part of school.
What is academic performance?
A persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that characterizes major depressive disorder.
What is a symptom of depression?
Specific term for intentionally breaking or burning other people's belongings
What is destruction of property?
The typical age range during which conduct disorder commonly develops.
What is adolescence?
This training program teaches parents specific ways to praise good behavior and use clear, fair consequences for their child's actions.
What is Parent Management Training?
Higher levels of this hormone are linked to aggression in conduct disorder
What is testosterone?
A feeling of being grumpy, easily annoyed, or in a bad mood all the time, which can be a sign of depression in children instead of just plain sadness.
What is irritability?
A child with CD often engages in this behavior to get favors or avoid responsibilities, rather than telling the truth.
What is lying?
The approximate percentage of children and teens in the U.S. estimated to have this disorder, which is more common among males than females.
What is up to 3%?
Even though there is no specific medicine for conduct disorder itself, doctors often use these specific medications to help control symptoms of related problems like ADHD.
What are stimulants (or ADHD medications)?
This therapy helps children learn problem-solving skills and impulsive control.
This therapy helps children learn problem-solving skills and impulsive contro
It's normal to feel sad sometimes, but if a child's sadness, grumpiness, or lack of interest in fun activities lasts for more than two weeks and gets in the way of their daily life, it might be a sign of this treatable medical condition.
What is depression?
When a person with CD doesn't feel bad after hurting someone else, this is lack of...
What is lack of guilt?
This diagnostic manual provides the criteria used by mental health professionals to diagnose conduct disorder.
What is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition)?
This intensive treatment brings therapists, families, schools, and the community together in the home to help change a teen's behavior in all parts of their life.
What is Multisystemic Therapy (MST)?
This disorder is usually diagnosed after age 12, but an earlier onset is associated with a higher chance of developing antisocial personality disorder in adulthood.
What is adolescent-onset type?
For kids, depression often looks like crankiness or anger instead of just sadness, plus a lack of interest in fun things and changes in sleep for at least this many weeks.
What is 2 weeks or longer?
General lack of feeling or concern for the pain of others is a hallmark characteristic of the disorder.
What is empathy?
While males are generally more commonly diagnosed overall, the gender difference in prevalence is less pronounced in this specific type of onset.
What is adolescent-onset conduct disorder?
For teens with severe conduct disorder who might be a danger to themselves or others, treatment sometimes requires temporary placement in this highly structured and supervised residential environment.
What is an inpatient hospital setting (or residential treatment center)?
Lying to obtain goods or favors, or to avoid obligations, is a common behavior categorized as this.
What is deceitfulness or theft?
This specific class of antidepressant medication, often the first line of treatment due to its relative safety and tolerability, works by increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain.
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?