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Conduct disorder and Oppositional Defiant disorder

How is it diagnosed?

The International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) describes Conduct disorder as including many of the following: severe fighting, aggressiveness, bullying, cruelty to animals or other people, theft, fire setting, severe destruction of property, persistent and severe lying, truancy from school, severe disobedience or extreme or very frequent tantrums. These behaviours must have persisted for six months or more.

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Medical text written October 2003 by Dr A York, Child and Adolescent Psyachiatrist, Child and Family Consultation Centre, Richmond, London, UK.

 

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