It is important to know whether conduct disorder has its onset
in childhood or adolescence because:
- The reasons for onset of conduct disorder is psychological and
biological.The child with conduct disorder has disturbed emotional
patterns that include aggression, violence, property destruction
and poor peer relationship. Heredity plays an iimportant role.
- Sociocultural factors are related to the adolescence conduct
disorder. They are less psychologically disturbed ,but, are more
socially deviant. Gang behavior and antisocial behavior is
exhibited in adolescents with conduct disorder.
Interventions
Knowing the nature of onset is instrumental in interventions
procedures for conduct disorders in children.
- Interventions for childhood conduct disorder ,as it is
psychological in nature, include the involvement of parents as
parent counseling, parent education, family therapy and parent
management therapy.
- The interventions for adolescence conduct disorder includes
cognitive-behavioral therapy as anger management, conflict
resolution,social problem solving and social skill training.