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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Conduct Disorder"”.
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A Family-Based Association Study of Conduct Disorder.
<p>Conduct disorder (CD) is a psychiatric syndrome in childhood and adolescence that is one of the most common childhood disorders with continuously increasing prevalence but uncertain pathogenesis. We performed a genome-wide, family-based association study of CD using P2BAT/FBAT software. The data …
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The Status of Services to Students with Conduct Disorder by their Elementary School Counselors
Conduct Disorder (CD) is one of the most frequently occurring childhood behavior disorders. A state wide survey of elementary school counselors was conducted concerning the services provided to these students. Elementary school counselors were asked to identify peers to be interviewed (six) who are …
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The influence of poverty on the development and maintenance of conduct disorder and perpetuation of crime and violence
… (S-E factors of poverty), and symptoms of conduct disorder (CD) were related to criminality in a sample of 79 male Jamaican parolees and probationers. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 74 years old and were all of African descent. I interviewed participants using the World Health …
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A meta-analysis of cognitive intervention, parent management training, and psychopharmacological intervention in the treatment of conduct disorder
Conduct disorder in children and adolescents has developed into a very costly problem with severe negative consequences to individuals, families, and communities. A void exists in the literature in that no summaries have been found which compare the effectiveness of the leading treatment modalities …
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SCOTUS' Decisions on Sentencing Juvenile Offenders: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors of Juvenile Conduct Disorder and Adult Offending
Conduct disorder is one of the most frequently diagnosed mental illnesses in children in the United States today and consequently, is responsible for a great deal of juvenile delinquency. Extant research and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicate that juvenile offenders are more …
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Unexamined Youth of the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of the Prevalence of Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder Diagnosis
… of diagnoses; one being that the juveniles who conduct delinquent acts have multiple mental health concerns which leads to the high rates of mental illness in the system. The second reason is a legal one; assigning a diagnosis can lead to a better understanding of the youth’s problems and needs, …
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A Profile Analysis of the SCL-90-R for Aggressive and Nonaggressive Adolescents with Conduct Disorder : a Comparison of Aggression and Nonaggression in Relationship to Psychoticism and Depression, Hostility and Anxiety
… with the DSM-III classification of conduct disorder has led the editors of the DSM-III-R to group the socialized and undersocialized, aggressive and the undersocialized, nonaggressive conduct-disorderd youth together in the same category (Solitary Aggressive Type). However, the …
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders
… roles that sensation seeking, impulsivity, ADHD, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder have on adolescents classified as psychopaths. The participants consisted of 79 adjudicated male adolescents in a maximum-security facility. As hypothesized, adolescent male psychopaths had higher …
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Aggressive behavior in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Behavioral studies of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have indicated that aggression is common amongst alcohol-exposed adolescents, and that it appears to become more prevalent with age in that population. Such studies have documented the presence of aggression as a behavioral outcome, but …
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Neuropsychological Test Performance and Other Predictors of Adult Outcome in a Prospective Follow-Up Study of Children with ADHD
… of children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and examines whether test performance and severity of childhood disruptive behaviors predict adult psychiatric status and functioning in major domains (educational, social, and occupational). Participants were 100 middle-class, White …
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Stuðningur við jákvæða hegðun: Beinar áhorfsmælingar í 1-3 bekk í þremur grunnskólum í Reykjanesbæ vorið 2010
… ofvirkniröskun (attention-defict/hyperactivity disorder; ADHD) mótþrjóskuröskun (oppositional defiant disorder; ODD) og hegðunarröskun (conduct disorder; CD). Stuðningur við jákvæða hegðun (positive behavior support; PBS) er ein leið til þess að takast á við hegðunarvandamál í grunnskólum. Þrír …
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Polymorphisms in Dopamine System Genes DAT1 and DRD4 are Associated with Disinhibitory Psychopathology in Adolescence
… specificity of genetic influence upon childhood disorders of behavioral disinhibition is uncertain. Polymorphisms in dopamine system genes have been implicated in the contribution of risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other externalizing behavior disorders, but the …
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Evaluation of a multi-modal treatment approach for adjudicated youth
… treatment on an adolescent with comorbid mental disorders in residential treatment using a case study format. The subject of this study was a 16-year-old girl who suffers from Reactive Attachment Disorder, Conduct Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder as well as multiple traumatic …
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The effects that a cognitive behavior modification intervention can have on a child with behavioral disabilities
… child with behavior disabilities. Children with conduct disorder(s) frequently engage in aggressive and disruptive behaviors and often show and express their emotions in many different ways. Often these behaviors are controlled or managed through behavioral interventions. CBM aims to teach …
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Describing Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Processes in Adolescents with and without Psychopathic Traits: Examining Rorschach Variables
… differences among youth diagnosed with Conduct Disorder (CD) who were either high or low on psychopathic traits. Twenty-nine male adolescents with CD in an alternative education school setting were placed into high or low psychopathy groups based on their Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL: …
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Gender differences in symptom change for court-placed youth in residential treatment : a latent growth curve analysis
… SFSS screens for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), Conduct Disorder or Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression and Anxiety. Youth in residential treatment are often exposed to trauma (Stimmel, Cruise, Ford & Weiss, 2014), it is possible trauma symptomology impacted treatment …
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Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbances and Psychopathology in a Mental Health Clinic Sample
… and psychopathology in children with specific disorders (e.g. ADHD, depression, etc.). However, few studies have investigated the relationship between sleep and psychopathology in a broad sample of children seen at mental health agencies. Both child factors and family factors may influence both …
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Religiosity-Spirituality And Risky Drinking Over The Transition To College: A Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study
… significant even after controlling for race and conduct disorder symptoms. In conclusion, religiosity-spirituality is a stable and important correlate and predictor of risky drinking, as well as a potential target for prevention and intervention during the transition to college.</p>
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
… antisocial behavior included its early onset, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance-related disorders. In the PCL-R, the Antisocial facet outperformed all other facets and the total score as a predictor of persistence. The Interpersonal facet showed unique clinical …
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