Abstract
This chapter aims to identify and discuss conduct disorder and other disorders occurring in childhood involving difficulties in impulse control that increase an individual's likelihood of developing and following such a progression. Conduct Disorder (CD) encompasses an extensive range of repetitive and persistent antisocial behaviors that include aggressive acts, setting fires, running away, theft, vandalism, and deceitfulness. These behaviors can, if left untreated, progress to severe antisocial acts and to the diagnosis of Conduct Disorder or, in adulthood, Antisocial Personality Disorder. CD constitutes the highest rates of child referrals to mental health facilities. A wide variety of parent and family factors has been found to be related to the development and progression of CD. Parental factors such as psychopathology and criminal behavior, as well as ineffective and inconsistent parenting, are a major risk factor.
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