Main description:

Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders provides essential understanding on how disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) is characterized, its early markers and etiology, and the empirically-based treatment for the disorder. The book covers features and assessment of various DBDs, including oppositional-defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and antisocial personality disorder, the psychological markers of externalizing problems, such as irritability and anger, common elements of effective evidence-based treatments for DBD for behavioral treatments, cognitive therapies, and family and community therapies. A final section discusses new and emerging insights in the prevention and treatment of DBD.

Contents:

1. Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders 2. Oppositional Defiant Disorder 3. Conduct Disorder 4. Antisocial Personality Disorder 5. Negative Affect 6. Callous-unemotional Traits 7. Cognitive Attribution Bias 8. Sensation-seeking and risk-taking 9. Behavioral Treatments 10. Cognitive Therapies 11. Anger Management 12. Family and Community Therapies 13. Developmental Pathways 14. Integrative theory and treatment; Prevention