Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders Flashcards
Name the 3 Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder
- Conduct Disorder
What category was Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders included in in previous version of the DSM?
included with disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Are Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders included with ADHD?
no, now conceptualized as separate from ADHD
What addition was added to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders and why was it controversial?
- Addition of Intermittent Explosive Disorder
- Controversial because of concerns this is insufficiently distinct from normal temper outbursts
What is the diagnostic criteria for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
A pattern of angry or irritable mood with argumentative, defiant, or vindictive behavior, lasting at least six months, with:
- Angry/irritable mood
- Argumentative/defiant behavior
- Vindictiveness: at least 2x in 6 months
What are symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder often associated with?
distress in the individual or in others
What are the differential diagnosis for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- ADHD
- Developmental disorders
What are the comorbidities for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- ADHD
- Developmental disorders
What are the genetic/biological etiologies for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Reduced cortisol reactivity to stress
- Reduced amygdala reactivity to negative stimuli
- Altered serotonin and noradrenaline neurotransmission
- Abnormalities in the amygdala and frontal cortex
What are the environmental etiologies for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Prenatal maternal cigarette smoking, alcohol use, or viral illness
- Maternal stress and anxiety
- Low birthweight
- Early neonatal complications
- Parental stress
- Dysfunctional parenting (can be the reason, but not in most cases)
- Early deprivation or adoption all are implicated in development of the disorder
What is the prognosis for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Strong predictor of adult antisocial personality disorder
- Strong predictor of conduct disorder and depression
- Worse prognosis if early onset
- More severe ODD predicts personality disorder
What are the implications for function for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Negatively affects family, school, social, and work performance
- Difficulty in areas of interpersonal skills, emotional regulation
- Difficulty in associating behaviors with +ve or –ve consequences
- Decreased problem solving, attention, decision making
What treatments are used for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Interventions focused on social learning
- Psycho-therapies including cognitive-behavioral therapy, parent training and family therapy
- Collaborative problem solving has shown some modest success-develop skills in problem solving, flexibility, frustration tolerance
What are the implications for OT for Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Parent training- understand behavior & social learning
- Behavioral interventions emphasizing engagement in meaningful and acceptable forms of activity, with emphasis on improved social awareness and skill
- Teach problem solving, decision making; train frustration tolerance and attention
- Clear expectations and consequences are essential- Consistent with classroom rules, house rules
What is the diagnostic criteria for Intermittent Explosive Disorder?
-Frequent behavioral outbursts and failure to manage aggressive impulses:
-Verbal aggression- no damage/destruction or
physical injury
-Behavioral outbursts- cause damage/destruction or
physical injury to others twice a week for at least 3
months
-Behavior out of proportion with provocation
-The outbursts are not premeditated to accomplishing some identifiable objective
-The outbursts cause distress in the individual or dysfunction, legal or financial consequences