The symptoms of conduct disorder are Lying, Trespassing, Truancy from school or home, breaking curfew, fire setting, physical aggression, cruelty towards animals and people and bullying or threatening behavior.
Conduct disorder is a group of behavioral and emotional problems characterized by a disregard for others.
Children with conduct disorder have a difficult time following rules and behaving in a socially acceptable way.
Their behavior can be hostile and sometimes physically violent.
Things such as a traumatic experience, social problems, and biological factors may be involved with conduct disorder.
To reduce the risk for conduct disorder, parents can learn positive parenting strategies.
This can help to create a closer parent-child relationship.
Extreme bullying, hurting animals, and lying for no reason are all signs of conduct disorder.
A disruptive behavior disorder characterized by calloused disregard for the feelings and rights of other people.
Four types of symptoms of conduct disorder are recognized: (1) Aggression or serious threats of harm to people or animals; (2) Deliberate property damage or destruction (e.g., fire setting, vandalism); (3) Repeated violation of household or school rules, laws, or both.
Usually, the disruptive behaviors of conduct stop during early adulthood, but in about one-third of cases, they continue. Many of these cases meet the criteria for antisocial personality disorder.
The majority of children, about 70%, who do display symptoms of conduct disorder will grow out of it by adolescence.
The children that do not grow out of it and progress on to adolescence have a poorer prognosis than those with the adolescent-onset type.
Some ways to discipline a child with conduct disorder are.
Establish rules that are reasonable, fair, logical, and consistent.
Set firm limits and boundaries.
To avoid power struggles around rules and limits, establish clear consequences, and let your child know in no uncertain terms what they are.