conduct disorder

Examples of conduct disorder in the following topics:

• Psychological Theories of Deviance

  • One case study of a psychological theory of deviance is the case of conduct disorder.
  • Conduct disorder is a psychological disorder diagnosed in childhood that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others and major age-appropriate norms are violated.
  • According the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–IV (the professional manual listing all medically recognized mental disorders and their symptoms), conduct disorder presents as aggressive and disrespectful behavior.
  • In addition, youth with conduct disorder demonstrated less responsiveness in the orbitofrontal regions of the brain during a stimulus-reinforcement and reward task.
  • According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – IV, the professional manual listing all medically recognized mental disorders and their symptoms, conduct disorder presents as aggressive and disrespectful behavior.

• Theories of Deviance

  • For instance, recent research in neurology and psychology finds that boys with conduct disorder have differences in their brain structure and that those differences exist during childhood and adolescence.

• Mental Health

  • Common disorders that affect a person's mental health can range from attention deficit disorder (ADD), which is often easily treatable and not-disabling, to severe schizophrenia, which can interfere with day-to-day life processes.
  • Mental health describes a level of psychological well-being or the presence/absence of a mental disorder.
  • Thus, the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders varies widely by social class.
  • This lithograph illustrates the eight mental health disorders that were thought to be prominent in England during the early-19th century: dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania, and paralysis.
  • Since 1837, many of those disorders have been erased from medical textbooks or modified in light of changing social norms.

• The Experience of Illness

  • Specific illnesses known as mental illnesses include major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to name a few.
  • Statistics show that more and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders.
  • The National Institute for Mental Health reports that over 40 million adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in a given year, accounting for 18 percent of the population.
  • Other disorders that are prevalent are ADHD (4 percent), mood disorders (9.5 percent) and and autism (1 percent, but quickly rising).

• Institutionalized Children

  • However, there are a number of institutions specializing only in the treatment of juveniles, particularly when dealing with drug abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety, depression or other mental illness.
  • Deinstitutionalization is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health service for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability.

• The Middle Years

  • Advanced maternal age increases the risk of a child being born with some disorders, such as Down syndrome.
  • Advanced paternal age sharply increases the risk of miscarriage, as well as Down syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder.

• Riots

  • A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence, vandalism or other crime.

• Race and Ethnicity

  • There are many single gene genetic disorders that differ in frequency between different populations.
  • Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters that are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.

• The Labeling Approach

  • Mental illnesses are socially constructed illnesses and psychotic disorders do not exist.
  • Criteria for different mental illnesses, he believed, are not consistently fulfilled by those who are diagnosed with them because all of these people suffer from the same disorder.
  • A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological pattern, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development of a person's culture.

• Police

  • The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.
  • The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder.