Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bad behaviour: an historical perspective on disorders of conduct
- 2 Can the study of ‘normal’ behaviour contribute to an understanding of conduct disorder?
- 3 The development of children's conflict and prosocial behaviour: lessons from research on social understanding and gender
- 4 Neural mechanisms underlying aggressive behaviour
- 5 Biosocial influences on antisocial behaviours in childhood and adolescence
- 6 The epidemiology of disorders of conduct: nosological issues and comorbidity
- 7 Conduct disorder in context
- 8 Genetic influences on conduct disorder
- 9 The role of neuropsychological deficits in conduct disorders
- 10 A reinforcement model of conduct problems in children and adolescents: advances in theory and intervention
- 11 Perceptual and attributional processes in aggression and conduct problems
- 12 Attachment and conduct disorder
- 13 Friends, friendships and conduct disorders
- 14 Continuities and discontinuities of development, with particular emphasis on emotional and cognitive components of disruptive behaviour
- 15 Treatment of conduct disorders
- 16 The prevention of conduct disorder: a review of successful and unsuccessful experiments
- 17 Economic evaluation and conduct disorders
- 18 Antisocial children grown up
- 19 Conduct disorder: future directions. An afterword
- Index
15 - Treatment of conduct disorders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bad behaviour: an historical perspective on disorders of conduct
- 2 Can the study of ‘normal’ behaviour contribute to an understanding of conduct disorder?
- 3 The development of children's conflict and prosocial behaviour: lessons from research on social understanding and gender
- 4 Neural mechanisms underlying aggressive behaviour
- 5 Biosocial influences on antisocial behaviours in childhood and adolescence
- 6 The epidemiology of disorders of conduct: nosological issues and comorbidity
- 7 Conduct disorder in context
- 8 Genetic influences on conduct disorder
- 9 The role of neuropsychological deficits in conduct disorders
- 10 A reinforcement model of conduct problems in children and adolescents: advances in theory and intervention
- 11 Perceptual and attributional processes in aggression and conduct problems
- 12 Attachment and conduct disorder
- 13 Friends, friendships and conduct disorders
- 14 Continuities and discontinuities of development, with particular emphasis on emotional and cognitive components of disruptive behaviour
- 15 Treatment of conduct disorders
- 16 The prevention of conduct disorder: a review of successful and unsuccessful experiments
- 17 Economic evaluation and conduct disorders
- 18 Antisocial children grown up
- 19 Conduct disorder: future directions. An afterword
- Index
Summary
Among the many points detailed in previous chapters, we have learned that conduct disorder is one of the most frequent bases of clinical referral in child and adolescent treatment services, has relatively poor long-term prognosis, and is transmitted across generations. Because children with conduct disorder often traverse multiple social services (e.g. special education, mental health, juvenile justice), the disorder is one of the most costly mental disorders in the United States (Robins, 1981). (Children will be used to refer to both children and adolescents. When pertinent to the discussion, a distinction will be made and referred to accordingly.) Clearly, there is an urgent need to develop effective intervention programmes. At the same time, developing effective treatments for conduct disorder is daunting. The very nature of the disorder and the many facets with which it is associated portend many obstacles in merely delivering treatment let alone achieving therapeutic change. Nevertheless, within the past two decades, significant advances have been made in treatment. The present chapter reviews and evaluates advances in the treatment of conduct disorder. Promising treatments are presented and evaluated. Each of the treatments was selected because it has been carefully evaluated in controlled clinical trials. In addition to evaluating specific techniques, limitations of current treatment research and models of delivering service to conduct disordered youth are also discussed.
Key characteristics to consider in relation to treatment
From a treatment perspective, conduct disorder represents an array of child, parent, family and contextual conditions.
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- Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence , pp. 408 - 448Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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