A psychiatric diagnosis, created by the American Psychiatric Association, for children who violate age-appropriate social norms and rules, especially by physically aggressing persons, damaging property, stealing, running away from home, and not going to school. Thus, it is a consistent pattern of socially non-acceptable, norm-breaking behavior leading to functional disability. Conduct disorder has been associated with family conflicts, child abuse, poverty, genetic defects, and parental drug addiction or alcoholism as well as being more common in children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity disorder. More common among boys, it is estimated to be as high as 10% in the US.
See Aggressive behavior, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Behavior problems, Bullying, COppositional defiant disorder (ODD), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)