Overview of Conduct Disorder: Implications for School Rehabilitation Professionals

Overview of Conduct Disorder: Implications for School Rehabilitation Professionals

Michael F. Shaughnessy, Mark Williams II, Carl Michael Carlson, Chia Jung Yeh
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6315-4.ch013
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Abstract

Research studies show that conduct disorder is a disruptive behavior disorder that might cause children to experience some challenges within their personal and social life. Very often children with this disorder might be feeling failure at school and exclusion from their peers and others. It might also affect their home, social, and school environments. These students with this disorder might present management and therapeutic challenges for counselors, psychologists, and mental health professionals. This chapter aims to provide an overview of conduct disorder, which might help school rehabilitation professionals and educators understand what risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis criteria, and treatment options can better understand this disorder, preventions, and interventions. This chapter will cursorily explore these realms with an overview of this disorder and offer some implementations and recommendations for school rehabilitation professionals.
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Background

Students with conduct disorders have been a challenge in the schools for many years. There are students with overt and covert conduct disorders with behaviors ranging from theft to assault to fire starting, and these students have presented management challenges and therapeutic challenges for counselors, psychologists and mental health professionals alike. This chapter will cursorily explore this disorder and provide an overview of this disorder and examine treatment issues, including characteristics, risk factors, causes, symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and some treatments, and implementation in the classroom.

Characteristics

Children and adolescents with conduct disorder often show intense emotional and behavioral problems (Psychology Today, 2017). Children with minor conduct disorder diagnose consistently violate others' rights and will not adapt their behavior to meet the law or other social norms (Porter, n.d.). They may be labeled as juvenile delinquents in the courts and in the judicial system. The impact of some students’ behavior patterns will bring them in contact with disciplinary actions from the school system. Further, their parents may have to attend various disciplinary meetings, and the juvenile justice system may also become involved (Kauffman et al., 2017).

Students with conduct disorder often show aggression and anger, demonstrating some difficulties in retaining appropriate behavioral relationships with peers, family, and other authority figures (Woodard et al., 2019). Often, educators view and label these students as simply “bad boys” or “bad girls” without realizing the underlying and legitimate mental disorder.

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