Question 1

what can cause conduct disorder?

Accepted Answer

Conduct: Conduct do follows oppositional defiant disorder which can be preceded by adhd. Basic issue is poor impulse control which lead to misconduct and getting in trouble

Question 2

what sort of disease is a conduct disorder?

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What is conduct d/p?: A set of behaviors seen in children over the age of 16.  This includes (but is not limited to) stealing, conning people, skipping school, bullying, threatening others, and damaging property.

Question 3

what is the definition or description of: conduct disorder?

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Rule breaking: Conduct disorder typically occurs in teens and refers to a persisten pattern of rule breaking with respects to rights of others and social norms.  Behaviors can include aggression to people or animals, property distruction, stealing and lying, and other forms of rule-breaking such as running away or being truant.  Behaviors have to be recurrent & persistant & cause impairment for the individual.

Question 4

need expert help here. what are the symptoms for conduct disorder?

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Conduct disorder: Engaging in frequent bullying or threatening
often starting fights
using a weapon that could cause serious injury (gun, knife, club, broken glass)
showing physical cruelty to people
showing physical cruelty to animals
engaging in theft with confrontation (armed robbery, extortion, mugging, purse snatching)
forcing sex on someone, deliberately setting fires to cause serious damage
deliberately.

Question 5

to what extent are conduct disorder and aspergers similar?

Accepted Answer

This may help: Aspies are troublesome because they really don't understand others; most want to be liked and to fit in & be good people but lack basic social intuition, haven't figured out that relationships are more important than being right. Conduct disorder is repetitive pattern of behavior showing gross indifference to the basic rights of others that a kid of the age should comprehend.

Question 6

is homicidal ideation more common in kids with conduct disorder?

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Yes: Conduct disorder is the pediatric version of antisocial personality disorder which was formerly called psychopath disorder.  Psychopaths typically had homocidal ideation.

Question 7

tell me more about oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder?

Accepted Answer

A bad kid!: At the least, this might have been what folk would call him/her. Odd has to last awhile and is about the very negative attitude held and expressed by the person. I'd imagine it overlaps a lot and often with cd. Here's a good bit of info on odd: http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/oppositional_defiant_disorder
good luck.

Question 8

do children with autism disorder also often have problems with conduct disorder?

Accepted Answer

No/yes: Autistic kids have major behavioral problems. But this is very different from conduct disorder. Autistic kids react according to their perception of the environment. They don't comprehend what others do. That isn't a conduct problem it's a comprehension problem. Treaments are available to help these symptoms.

Question 9

is conduct disorder hereditary?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Conduct disorder is not a condition so much as a description of a cluster of symptoms of inappropriate behaviors occurring in other conditions. People with bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depression and ad/hd have a high incidence of conduct problems. The primary conditions are all heritable. Treatment of the primary problem usually helps the conduct problem.

Question 10

what are the usual symptoms of someone with conduct disorder?

Accepted Answer

See below: Repetitive/persistent pattern of behavior by a child/teenager in which the basic rights of others/major age-appropriate societal norms/rules are violated. These beh fall into 4 main groupings: aggressive conduct that causes/threatens physical harm to other people/animals, nonaggressive conduct that causes property loss/damage, deceitfulness, theft, serious violations of rules time and time again.

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