Conduct Disorder
Also written as CD.
Two key diagnoses are oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD).
Conduct disorder (CD)
- CD involves a repetitive and persistent pattern of behaviour in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate rules are violated.
- The symptom groups include:
- Aggression toward people or animals: bullying, initiating fights, cruelty, using a weapon or forcing sexual activity.
- Destruction of property: deliberate fire-setting or other intentional serious destruction.
- Deceitfulness or theft: breaking into property, repeated lying to obtain goods or avoid obligations, stealing items of value.
Read this in Neurodevelopmental Disorders II: ADHD and Disruptive Behaviour
What our notes say
- Two key diagnoses are oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD). (Neurodevelopmental Disorders II: ADHD and Disruptive Behaviour)
- Disruptive, impulse-control and conduct: oppositional defiant, conduct disorder. (Classification of Mental Disorders)
- Key point: ODD does not by definition include the serious violation of other people's basic rights or major age-appropriate societal rules that characterises conduct disorder. (Neurodevelopmental Disorders II: ADHD and Disruptive Behaviour)