Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Graham Reid

Document Summary

Oppositional defiant disorder (odd) and conduct disorder (cd) Externalizing disorders; acting out, being impulsive, being aggressive: classification, prevelance, associated features and course, comorbidity, risk factors and etiological theories, treatments that work. Negative, hostile, defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months. Losing temper, argumentative, defiant, blames others, touchy, angry: behaviors must be more frequent than normative for age. Extremely noncompliant kids with poor emotional control- negativisitic, disobedient, hostile towards authority. Validity is disputed: characterizes many preschoolers and teens to some extent. Persistent and repetitive pattern of violating norms and rules lasting at least twelve months, including: aggression to people/animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, serious violation of rules, much more serious than odd. Conduct problems vary across two dimensions: overt (aggressive and oppostional) vs, covert (destroys property status violations), destructive (aggressive, destroys property) vs non destructive (status violations, oppositional) If persists into childhood: overt (garden variety criminal) and covert (white collar criminal)