Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Disruptive Behaviour 67 social and relationship skills), gives information regarding prognosis, and carries information about wh ...

68 Chapter 6 Symptoms and signs The manifestations change with age. Younger children are more likely to show the signs of opposi ...

Disruptive Behaviour 69 Box 6.2ICD-10∗criteria for conduct disorder (CD)‡ At least three of the following items in the previous ...

70 Chapter 6 CD into ‘unsocialised’ and ‘socialised’ types according to whether peer relationships are normal or not. DSM-IV has ...

Disruptive Behaviour 71 Box 6.3The symptoms of ADHD and disruptive behavioural disorders overlap Disruptive behavioural disorder ...

72 Chapter 6 IQ, poor memory, poor motor skills, lower heart rate). Not all early onset cases persist, but a marker for persiste ...

Disruptive Behaviour 73 such as low cholesterol. There are also abnormal arousal patterns with failure to calm down after frustr ...

74 Chapter 6 Wider environment 1 School factorshave been shown to affect the rate of disruptive behavioural disorders independen ...

Disruptive Behaviour 75 addressed if treatment is to progress, for example, ‘There’s something wrong in his head,’ or, ‘He’s jus ...

76 Chapter 6 4 Family therapy is fairly frequently used but has hardly been eval- uated. Judging from clinical experience, it is ...

Disruptive Behaviour 77 school and offer, for example, parent training and social skills to those at risk. To date, there have b ...

78 Chapter 6 Moffitt TE, Scott S. (2008) Conduct disorders of childhood and adoles- cence.In: Rutter Met al.(eds)Rutter’s Child ...

CHAPTER 7 Juvenile Delinquency The definition of juvenile delinquency is legal and is not directly related to mental health. In ...

80 Chapter 7 Box 7.1Findings from the ASSET survey of 3,395 young offender in Britain Personal characteristics 82% were male an ...

Juvenile Delinquency 81 cross-cultural invariance and parallel gender differences in non-human primates, to the cultural, lookin ...

82 Chapter 7 in violent crimes by youths has increased considerably in the last decade, although overall the rate of violent cri ...

Juvenile Delinquency 83 praising as there is, can be irregular. A lack of techniques for dealing with family crises and problems ...

84 Chapter 7 marrying a non-antisocial wife led to reductions in criminal behaviour, as did service in the army. Attitudes. Do ...

Juvenile Delinquency 85 again, others with fewer do. This makes reliable decisions about who needs to be detained in a secure fa ...

86 Chapter 7 for violence? Does his father come home drunk and hit him? There are a number of instruments to help assess risk, a ...