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1
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What did the Kim-Cohen et al (2003) New Zealand study show regarding the link between child and adult disorders

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The biggest predictor of adult disorders was childhood conduct disorders.

Conducts problems os one of the first signs that there is something emotionally and behaviourally wrong

2
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What does conduct problems entail?

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and Conduct Disorder

3
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What are the criteria for ODD

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A pattern of negatavistic, hostile, and defiant behaviour lasting at least 6 months

1) often loses temper
2) often argues with adults
3) often actively defies/refuses to comply with adults’ requests/rules
4) often deliberately annoys people
5) often blames others for mistakes/misbehaviour
6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
7) is often angry and resentful
8) is often spiteful or vindictive

4
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How many of the ODD criteria must be met

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FOUR (in the last 6 months)

5
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What are the

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1) Angry/irritable mood
> feels done badly by
2) Argumentative/defiant dimension
> projects blame and argues
3) Vindicitiveness
6
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What are the angry/irritability dimension

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angry and poor emotional regulation

> most likely leads to mood and anxiety disorder

7
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Arguementative dimension

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ADHD

8
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Vindictiveness dimension

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Callousness; empathic defecits; instrumental aggression - aggression to get what you want!

> lowest frequency amongst ODD

9
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What is Patterson’s (1982) coercion theory?

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Family interactions based on social learning (operant conditioning) theory.

Husband gets yelled at to take out garbage, yelling escolates…
> He is negatively reinforced (removes aversive interchange)
> Wife is positively reinforced
(high escolation results in what she wants)

10
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Whats is the result of the coercion model

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The 100’s of aversive interaction on a day to day basis:
> causes traps, which train (through negative and positive reinforcement) aggressive and hostile behaviour
> gradually attention patterns trap the child - they only get attention when they are naughty
> the parent no longer pays any positive attention to the child - only attend to child when they are aggressive and non-compliant
> the child will become a master at getting what they want through heightening on the aversive interchanges
> the child does not learn how to regulate

“The adult and child are both the victim and architect of this viscous cycle.”

11
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What are the implications of the coercion interchange in early development?

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> The child will then take these un-regulated behaviour into school
The environment will reinforce this behaviour as the child will socialise with other kids of the same ‘defiance’.

12
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What are the four dimensions of conduct disorder?

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  1. Aggression to people and animals
  2. Destruction of property
  3. Deceitfulness or theft
  4. Serious violations of rules
13
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Is conduct disorder heterogenous or homogenous?

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Herterogenous
> levels of emotionality
> level of onset
> levels of callousness

Changes treatment methods

14
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What are the two onset types of conduct disorder?

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Childhood-onset type:
> less normative and less healthy
> cut off 10 years
> many more neurocognitive risk factors (eg exucutive functioning, low IQ)
> coercise parent-child dynamics
> temperamental/personality risk factors

Adolescent-onset type:
> much more normative
> no such risk factors
> an exaggeration of the normative process of adolescent rebellion

15
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What is the sex difference

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There is some evidence that the normal onset age of conduct disorder is LATER for females than men

16
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What type of conduct disorder are we more concerned about as clinicians?

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Early-onset type

17
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What are the two types of children with conduct disorder?

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WITH limited prosocial emotions

WITHOUT limited prosocial emotions

18
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What are the characteristics of children with and without the limited prosocial specifier (LPS)

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Without:
> Low callous-unemotional (CU) traits
> emotionally dysregulated
> over reactive to emotional cues
> typical of anxiety, depression or ADHD
> reactive aggression - overreacting to emotional cues
> high attributional biases
With:
> high CU traits
> more severe and chronic
> proactive aggression
> reward-dominance
> under-reactive to emotional cues - doesn't notice anybody else's state (what do I need?)
19
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What type of conduct disorder sufferers struggle to identify face emotions?

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Those with limited prosocial specifiers
High callous- unemotional traits
> they rarely show activation of the emotional brain (amygdala)
> may just be paying attention to the wrong areas of the face - looking at the mouth instead of the eyes

20
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Heritability of high and low callous-unemotional traits

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> Moderate genetic (0.3) and environmental influence

> High genetic 0.81 but low genetic influence

21
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When do conduct problems begin?

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Early, in either childhood or adolescence

22
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What do conduct problems predicts?

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A substantial risk for a range of future health problems eg depression, anxiety, personality disorders