| Conduct Disorder |
Conduct disorder has four main groupings:
Typically there would have been three or more of the following behaviors in the past 12 months, with at least one in the past 6 months:
- Aggressive conduct that causes or threatens physical harm to other people or animal
- Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others
- Often initiates physical fights
- Used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others (e.g., a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, gun)
- Has been physically cruel to people
- Has been physically cruel to animals
- Has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, extortion, armed robbery)
- Has forced someone into sexual activity
- Non- aggressive conduct that causes property loss or damage
- Deliberately engaged in fire setting with the intention of causing serious damage
- Deliberately destroyed others' property (other than by fire setting)
- Deceitfulness or theft
- has broken into someone else's house, building, or car
- often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., "cons" others)
- has stolen items of nontrivial value without confronting a victim (e.g., shoplifting, but without breaking and entering; forgery)
- Serious violations of rules
- often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions, beginning before age 13 years
- has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in parental or parental surrogate home (or once without returning for a lengthy period)
- is often truant from school, beginning before age 13 years
Other Useful Links regarding Conduct Disorder
- Course of Conduct Disorder
- The onset of conduct disorder may occur as early as age 5 or 6, but more usually occurs in late childhood or early adolescence, learn more about the course of conduct disorder
- Subtypes of Conduct Disorder
- Causes of Conduct Disorder
- Read more about the various causes of conduct disorder, including, biological, family, genetic, neurological, parent related, and school factors.
- Treatment of Conduct Disorder
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