Citation

Burt SA, Hyde LW, Frick PJ, Jaffee SR, Shaw DS, Tremblay R. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 2018; 59(6): 711-713.

Affiliation

School of Public Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jcpp.12930

PMID

29808490

Abstract

Conduct problems (CP) are actions that violate societal norms and/or the personal/property rights of others, and include behaviors such as vandalism, theft, bullying, and assault. Roughly 8%-10% of children engage in the more severe childhood-onset form of CP, while another 25% initiate clinically-significant levels of CP during adolescence. As deftly observed in Rivenbark et al., however, the high prevalence of CP belies its severity: Youth with CP are at increased risk for a number of deleterious individual outcomes, including academic delay/dropout, low professional achievement, psychopathology, addiction, and family instability.

© 2018 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Keywords: Juvenile justice

Language: en