Conduct Disorders and Severe Antisocial BehaviorAs reflected in the title, the purpose of this book is to guide clinicians in understanding and treating youth with severe antisocial behavior. Children and adolescents with conduct disorders operate at quite a high cost to society. In many opinion polls, juvenile crime and violence is rated as one of the most pressing concerns for many in our society. This widespread concern has prompted professionals from many disciplines to search for more effective interventions to prevent and treat youth with such disorders. This book is my attempt to summarize the current status of this very important endeavor. In providing this guide to clinicians, I have attempted to emphasize the critical link between understanding the clinical presentation, course, and causes of conduct disorders and designing effective interventions for children and adolescents with these disorders. Many past books, book chapters, and review articles have emphasized one or the other of these objectives. Some have provided excellent summaries of the vast amount of research on youth with conduct disorders without explicitly and clearly describing the clinical applica tions of this research. Others have focused on the implementation of specific interventions for youth with conduct disorders that is divorced from a basic understanding of the many diverse and clinically important characteristics of this population. The overriding theme of this book is that successful clinical inter vention requires an integration of both bodies of knowledge. |
Contents
An Introduction to Conduct Disorders | 1 |
A Complex and Important Construct | 2 |
An AppliedScience Orientation | 3 |
Overview of the Books Structure | 6 |
The Nature of Antisocial Behaviors and Conduct Disorders | 9 |
Dimensional or Categorical Views of Conduct Problems | 11 |
Prevalence of Antisocial Behaviors and Conduct Disorders | 12 |
Developmental Trajectories of Conduct Disorders | 14 |
Integrating Correlates into Causal Models | 58 |
Chapter Summary | 66 |
Clinical Assessment | 67 |
Specific Assessment Techniques | 69 |
Combining Information into a Clear Case Conceptualization | 87 |
Chapter Summary | 91 |
Treatment I The Basic Techniques | 93 |
Contingency Management | 95 |
Stability of Conduct Disorders | 17 |
Chapter Summary | 19 |
Classification of Conduct Disorders | 21 |
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder | 22 |
Subtypes Based on Patterns of Behavioral Covariation | 25 |
Subtypes Based on Socialization and Aggression | 28 |
Callousunemotional Traits and Conduct Disorders | 29 |
Conduct Disorders and Cooccurring Conditions | 32 |
Chapter Summary | 38 |
The Etiology of Conduct Disorders | 41 |
Dispositional Correlates | 43 |
Environmental Correlates | 49 |
Parent Management Training | 98 |
Cognitivebehavioral Skills Training | 106 |
Stimulant Medication | 111 |
Chapter Summary | 113 |
Comprehensive Approaches to Treatment | 115 |
Fast Track Program | 117 |
Multisystemic Therapy | 119 |
Flexible Multimodal Treatment of Conduct Disorders | 122 |
The Future of the Treatment of Conduct Disorders | 132 |
References | 135 |
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Achenbach ADHD adolescents with conduct adults American Psychiatric Association antisocial behavior antisocial personality disorder anxiety anxiety disorder approach to treatment associated attributional bias behavior e.g. behavior rating scales boys callous and unemotional causal factors CBST chapter child or adolescent child or adolescent's child's behavior childhood-onset children and adolescents children with conduct Clinical Psychology clinicians comorbidity comprehensive contingency management programs correlates to conduct deficits depression development of conduct developmental diagnostic discipline DSM-IV dysfunction effective example FAST Track program focus focused Frick Hinshaw implemented interactions interventions involved Jake Jake's Jarod Kamphaus Lahey Loeber Moffitt normative Oppositional Defiant Disorder parenting practices pattern of behavior pattern of conduct peer PMT programs Psychiatric psychological psychopathy samples severe antisocial skills social specific stimulant medication structured interviews subgroup of children subtypes Summary symptoms teacher tested therapy trajectory treatment approach treatment of conduct types unemotional traits
Popular passages
Page 146 - Bashir, MR, Schwarz, M., Richards, IN, Plapp, JM. & Stewart, GW (1988). Oppositional disorder: Fact or fiction? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 27, 157-162. Reynolds, CR, & Kamphaus, RW ( 1992) . The Behavior Assessment System for Children.