The Prevention of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder

Abstract

(from the chapter) Reviews preventive experiments for Oppositional Defiant (ODD) or Conduct (CD) Disorders and evaluates their efficacy. Studies with outcome measures related to CD/ODD symptoms, including court-recorded or self-reported delinquency, self-, parent-, or teacher-rated measures of aggressive-externalizing behavior, and observer-rated measures of aversive behavior in the classroom were selected. The review was also limited to those studies using nonreferred children ages 12 and under to ensure that the interventions were preventive in nature and that the focus was on interventions designed to alter developing disruptive behavior disorder tendencies in childhood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).