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Conduct Disorder

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Behavioral disorder; Challenging behavior; Disruptive behavior; Dissocial behavior; Problem behavior

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Conduct disorder (CD) is a behavioral disturbance occurring in childhood and adolescence characterized by a persistent and repetitive pattern of behavior that violates the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal rules. CD involves a number of problematic behaviors, including oppositional and defiant behaviors, and antisocial activities (e.g., lying, stealing, running away from home, truancy, physical aggression, and coercive behaviors).

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may have several problematic behaviors that are also found in people with CD, such as hyperactivity, impulsivity, aggression, and difficulty with following directions or being cooperative, and both conditions may share other features such as deficit in attributing mental states, poor verbal abilities for describing affective states, or reduced pragmatic...

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  1. Clinical Psychology Department, Institute on Community Integration. Universidad de Salamanca, Paseo de Canalejas, 169, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Ricardo Canal-Bedia

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    Fred R. Volkmar

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Canal-Bedia, R. (2017). Conduct Disorder. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_407-3

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