1. Conduct Disorder
Danielle Herring

2. Changes to Conduct Disorder from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5
Previously found under: Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
Now found under: Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
No Specifier
Specifier for ‘With Limited Prosocial Emotions’
Previously listed with ODD and ADHD
Common core impulse-control aspect now grouped together

3. Conduct Disorder
Found under Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders I DSM-5
Other disorders included in this chapter:
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Pyromania
Kleptomania
Other Specified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder
Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder

4. Conduct Disorder continued
Essential Feature of CD:
Repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that violates the basic rights of others and major age- appropriate societal norms or rules.
Must present for at least 3 of the following 15 criteria in the past 12 months, from any of the categories, with at least one criterion present in the past 6 months…
(American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
Monothetic schematic (larger diagnostic net)

5. Conduct Disorder continued
Aggression to People and Animals
Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others.
Often initiates physical fights.
Has used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others (e.g., a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, gun).
Has been physically cruel to people.
Has been physically cruel to animals.
Has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, extortion, armed robbery).
Has forced someone into sexual activity.

6. Conduct Disorder continued
Destruction of Property
Has deliberately engaged in fire setting with the intention of causing serious damage.
Has deliberately destroyed others’ property (other than by fire setting).
Deceitfulness or Theft
Has broken into someone else’s house, building, or car.
Often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., “cons” others).

7. Conduct Disorder continued
Deceitfulness or Theft cont.
Has stolen items of nontrivial value without confronting a victim (e.g., shoplifting, but without breaking and entering; forgery).
Serious Violation of Rules
Often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions, beginning before age 13 years.
Has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in the parental or parental surrogate home, or once without returning for a lengthy period.
Is often truant from school, beginning before age 13 years.

8. Conduct Disorder continued
Onset types:
Childhood-onset type: Individuals show at least one symptom characteristic of conduct disorder prior to age 10 years.
Adolescent-onset type: Individuals show no symptom characteristic of conduct disorder prior to age 10 years.
Unspecified onset: Criteria for a diagnosis of conduct disorder are met, but there is not enough information available to determine whether the onset of the first symptom was before or after age 10 years.
Childhood-onset type: prior to age 10 years.
Adolescent-onset type: no symptom prior to age 10 years.
Unspecified onset: not enough information available to determine whether the onset of the first symptom was before or after age 10 years.

9. Conduct Disorder continued
Specifier:
With Limited Prosocial Emotions: To qualify for this specifier, an individual must have displayed at least two of the following characteristics persistently over at least 12 months in multiple relationships and settings:
Lack of remorse or guilt
Callous – lack of empathy
Unconcerned about performance
Shallow or Deficient Affect
Current Severity: Mild, moderate, or severe
What is Conduct Disorder?

10. Prevalence Rate of CD 2% - more than 10% Median = 4%
3:1 male to female
Appears to be fairly consistent across various countries
Rise from childhood to adolescence
Per the DSM-IV-TR:
“The prevalence of Conduct Disorder appears to have increased over the last decades and may be higher in urban than in rural settings. Rates vary widely depending on the nature of the population sampled and methods of ascertainment. General population studies report rates ranging from less than 1% to more than 10%. Prevalence rates are higher among males than females.”

11. Onset of CD Onset can occur as early as preschool years
Significant symptoms usually emerge during middle childhood – middle adolescence
ODD is a common diagnosis prior to the childhood- onset type of CD
Onset is rare after 16 years of age
Adolescent-onset/diagnosis with more mild symptoms likely to remit by adulthood
Early symptoms predictive of life-course conduct problems
Adolescent onset – gradually taper off

12. Comorbid DSM-5 Disorders
Oppositional defiant disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Depressive disorder
Bipolar disorder
Specific learning disorder
Anxiety disorders
Substance-related disorders

13. DSM-V Clinical Model of CD
Core Features:
Aggression toward people or animals
Destruction of property
Deceitfulness or Theft
Serious violation of rules
Environmental Influences:
Family & Community level risk factors
Genetic Predisposition
Severity:
Mild
Moderate
Severe
Secondary Features:
Trait negative emotionality
Poor self-control
Irritability/temper outbursts
Insensitivity to punishment
Thrill seeking
Recklessness
Specifier, ‘With limited prosocial emotions’:
Lack of remorse or guilt
Callous – lack of empathy
Unconcerned about performance
Shallow or deficient affect

14. Literature Review

15. Developmental Risks
40 – 70% of adolescent boys with CD will develop APD by early adulthood (Weis, 2008)
Deceitfulness, property destruction, theft
Females with CD at risk for internalizing disorders
Depression, anxiety, BPD (Weis, 2008)
Strong association between CD and substance use (Loeber, Burke, Lahey, Winters & Zera, 2000).
School discipline problems (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
Males – number of covert symptoms predicts likelihood of showing future antisocial behavior
Females – symptoms of CD may interfere with development of identity and healthy relationships

16. Developmental Risks continued
More likely to be sexually active (Brown et al., 2010)
Longitudinal study conducted by Ramrakha et al., (2007), symptoms of CD, along with antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence -> sexual risk behaviors in adulthood (variance = 64%).
Females:
Prostitution/Early pregnancy
Likely to find antisocial partners
May increase risk for DBD among offspring
(Loeber et al., 2000)
Disruptive behavior disorder

17. Etiology - Genetic
Cappadocia et al., (2009) cites multiple studies that support a genetic aspect to the development of CD (i.e., Deater-Deckard, Reiss, Hetherington, & Plomin, 1997; Eaves, Silberg, Meyer, Maes, & Simonoff, 1997; Edelbrock, Rende, Plomin, & Thompson, 1995; Kim-Cohen, Caspi, Taylor, Williams, & Newcombe, 2006).
Individual differences in externalizing behaviors - highly heritable at 70% (Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development Project; Deater-Deckard et al., 1997 ).

18. Etiology – Genetic continued
Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development heritability estimates:
27–74% - parent interviews and questionnaires &
24–36% - self-report interviews and questionnaires with the twins (Eaves et al., 1997)
Large sample of Caucasian twin set aged 8-16 years.
Edelbrock et al. found significant genetic influence on aggressive behaviors (1995).
Correlations of .75 for MZ twins and .45 for DZ twins
Sample of 99 same-sex twins aged 7–15 years

19. Etiology – Environmental
Cappadocia et al., cites several studies that show poor parenting is associated with the disruptive behaviors of CD (2009).
Less involved
More lenient monitoring
Poor parent-child conflict resolution
Inconsistent discipline
(Frick et al., 1992; Haapasalo & Tremblay, 1994; Wasserman et al., 1996).

20. Etiology – Environmental continued
The DSM-5 also cites these additional family-level risk factors:
Parental rejection and neglect
Harsh discipline
Physical or sexual abuse
Early institutional living
Frequent changes of caregivers
Large family size
Certain kinds of familial psychopathology 
(American Psychiatric Association, 2013)

21. Etiology – Social Factors
CD diagnosis more prevalent in children from families of low SES (8%, n=87) (Lahey et al., 1999).
Adolescents with CD from low SES backgrounds more likely to develop APD in adulthood.
Lahey et al. (2005): 65%
Loeber et al., (2000) cites multiple studies that found CD more common in high crime-rate areas (Lahey et al., 1999, Loeber and Farrington, 1998; Sampson et al., 1997).
Prevalence rates of CD likely highest in worst inner- city neighborhoods (Loeber et al., 2000).

22. Etiology – Social Factors continued
Poor/disadvantaged neighborhoods
Negative community influences:
Drug availability
Association with adults that partake in crimes
Parent, peers, and neighborhood are all associated factors of CD (Cappadocia et al., 2009)
Peer rejection
Association with deviant peers
(Cappadocia et al., 2009).

23. Etiology - Neurological
Structural deficits in brain areas:
Frontal and temporal areas
Reduced right temporal lobe and right temporal grey matter volume (Kruesi, Casanova, Mannheim & Johnson-Bilder, 2004; Matthys, W., Vanderschuren, L. J., & Schutter, D. G., 2013).
Limbic system:
Amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex
Less activation in left amygdala and deactivation of ACC (Sterzer et al., 2005)
Right temporal lobe – empathy
Limbic system – associated with aggressive behaviors

24. Etiology – Neurological continued
Lower serotonin (5-HT) levels (Cappadocia et al., 2009)
Associated with aggression
Lower ANS functioning
Decreased resting heart rate and skin conductance
Meta-analysis of 40 studies showed low resting HR best replicated biological correlate of CD:
average effect size of -.44 (Ortiz & Raine, 2004).
HPA Axis involvement
Lower levels of cortisol have been associated with CD
Reduced serotonin – behavioral disinhibition, impulsive behaviors and aggression
Low resting heart rate, SC – underarousal leads to behavioral disinhibition as less likely to avoid behaviors with negative consequences. Atypical ANS functioning also associated with other mental health disorders - depression and schizophrenia.
HPA – low cortisol more aggressive symptoms of CD

25. Structural Brain Differences - Males
Sixty-five male adolescents with conduct disorder were re-cruited from schools, pupil referral units, and the Cambridge Youth Offending Service, Cambridge, United Kingdom. A healthy comparison group (no history of conduct disorder/oppositional defiant disorder and no current psychiatric illness) of 27 male adolescents, matched for IQ, was recruited from schools and colleges. (N=75)
Voxel-based morphometry analysis was performed using SPM5. The amygdala, insula, anterior cingulate, and orbitofrontal cortex were defined as the a priori regions of interest. The number of voxels within each region of interest was: amygdala: 248; insula: 1,858; anterior cingulate: 1,399; orbitofrontal cortex: 3,645. 
To decompose the group effects, the study first compared the combined conduct disorder group (early-onset plus adolescent-onset) with the healthy comparison group. Relative to comparison subjects, the combined conduct disorder group showed reduced gray matter volume in the bilateral amygdala.
Relative to comparison subjects, both early- and adolescent-onset conduct disorder participants showed reduced right amygdala gray matter volume. Adolescent-onset participants also displayed reduced left amygdala volume, and reduced left amygdala volume in early-onset participants.
The function of grey matter is to route sensory or motor stimulus to interneurons of the CNS in order to create a response to the stimulus through chemical synapse activity.
gray matter volume reductions in the bilateral in a combined group of participants with conduct disorder
significant bilateral amygdala volume reduction in participants with early-onset conduct disorder relative to healthy comparison subjects;
significant bilateral amygdala volume reduction in participants with adolescent-onset conduct disorder relative to healthy comparison subjects; and
the mean value for right amygdala gray matter volume in each group. The color bars represent T statistics.
Fairchild, G., Passamonti, L., Hurford, G., Hagan, C. C., von dem Hagen, E. H., van Goozen, S. M., & ... Calder, A. J. (2011). Brain structure abnormalities in early-onset and adolescent-onset conduct disorder. The American Journal Of Psychiatry, 168(6), doi: /appi.ajp

26. Structural Brain Differences - Females
Female adolescents with CD (n = 22) and healthy control participants matched in age, performance IQ and handedness (n = 20). Twenty-two female adolescents with CD aged 14–20 years were recruited from schools, pupil referral units and the Cambridge Youth Offending Service. A healthy control group (HC; no history of CD/ODD and no current psychiatric illness) of 21 female adolescents, matched for age, handedness and performance IQ, was recruited from schools. 
Relative to controls, the CD group showed reduced grey matter volume in bilateral anterior insula and right striatum. The table provides statistics and coordinates for these group differences. Panel A displays bilateral anterior insula and right striatal volume differences in coronal format, whereas panel B depicts the results in axial format. The color bar, which ranges from red to white, represents T statistics. 
Fairchild, G., Hagan, C. C., Walsh, N. D., Passamonti, L., Calder, A. J., & Goodyer, I. M. (2013). Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, 54(1), doi: /j x

27. Gender Differences
Different symptom clusters can be noted between sexes.
Males: Physical aggression:
Fighting, stealing, vandalism, and school discipline problems (Loeber et al., 2000).
Females: Indirect, verbal, and relational aggression:
Alienation, ostracism, and character defamation aimed at ‘friends’ (Loeber et al., 2000)
Lying, truancy, running away, substance use, and prostitution (Maughan et al. 2004)

28. Gender Differences continued
Prevalence data of ODD/CD in community sample divided between boys and girls. Popular to common belief, CD also relatively common in females.

29. Developmental Pathways Model
Loeber & Hay’s developmental pathways model (1994)
Within-individual changes in patterns of aggression. Establish development toward violence. Sequence of aggressive acts of increasing severity over time.
Loeber & Assoc. found evidence for 3 developmental pathways for males during childhood/adolescence.
1 – Overt pathway: aggression is first stage, physical fighting, and then violence (attacking someone, rape)
2 – Covert pathway: escalates through concealed behaviors
3 – Authority conflict pathway: conflict with and avoidance of authority figures.
As you go up the model, fewer males stay in the pathway. Important to distinguish between those that are ‘experimenting’ or peer pressured and those where the aggression persists over time.

30. Callous-Unemotional Traits
Lack of guilt, lack of concern about feelings of others, lack of concern about performance in important activities and shallow/deficient affect
Similar traits used to define construct of psychopathy in adults
Deficits in processing negative emotional stimuli
More fearless and thrill-seeking
Lower levels of anxiety
More severe, stable, and aggressive pattern of behavior
Higher rates of aggressive behavior and cruelty ratings (Kahn, R. E., Frick, P. J., Youngstrom, E., Findling, R. L., & Youngstrom, J., 2012).
The traits can interfere with the normal development of consciousness and place child at risk for severe and aggressive pattern of antisocial behavior.
Lower anxiety – less distressed by effects of their behavior.

31. Callous-Unemotional Traits continued
In a UK study of 7,977, aged 5-16 (2009):
2% diagnosed with CD
Of those, 46% showed 2 or more C/U traits
Those with C/U traits – more severe behavioral disturbance
In a sample of 1,862 high-risk girls, aged 6-8:
Of those that were diagnosed with CD, 26% met criteria for CU
Those with CU showed more bullying and relational aggression
(Frick, 2012 referencing Pardini, Stepp, Hipwell, Stouthamer-Loeber, & Loeber, in press)

32. C/U Traits & Outcomes
A study conducted by McMahon, Kotler, and Witkiewitz (2010) found that:
N = 891
Higher levels of C/U traits predicted:
Higher levels of self-reported delinquency
More juvenile and adult arrests
Greater number of APD criteria met
Higher likelihood of APD diagnosis

33. C/U Traits & Prevention
Frick (2012):
Interventions need to be comprehensive, individualized, and intense
Youths with CU traits less likely to respond and participate in typical treatment
Cognitive-behavioral treatment
Parent management training
School consultation
Peer relationship development
Crisis management
Medication for ADHD (if applicable)
(Kolko & Pardini, ,2010)

34. C/U Traits & Prevention
Munoz, Pakalniskiene, and Frick (2011):
Parents’ monitoring behaviors influence conduct problems?
Conduct problems influenced how parents monitored behavior?
Important for high levels of CU traits as that may influence parental behavior more than children without
75 parents & 81 children providing data
Parents with poor knowledge of child’s activities – controlled them less
Children less likely to provide information to parents
More resistant to punishment by parents
Prevention – target early relationship between parent and child

35. Other Models of CD
Cappadocia et al.’s hypothesized developmental model:

36. My Model of CD Comorbidity ODD Biological Influences ADHD Genetics
Neurological Impairments/ C-U Traits
Structural brain differences
Neurochemical dysregulation
Lack of remorse or guilt
Callous – lack of empathy
Unconcerned about performance
Shallow or deficient affect
Core Features:
Poor self-control
Irritability/temper outbursts
Insensitivity to punishment
Thrill seeking
Recklessness
Secondary/Features:
Aggression toward people or animals
Destruction of property
Deceitfulness or Theft
Serious violation of rules
Environmental Influences:
Family & Community level risk factors
SES-related factors
Severity:
Mild
Moderate
Severe
Antisocial Personality Disorder

37. References
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38. References
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39. References
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40. References
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41. References
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