Disruptive, Impulsive-Control and Conduct Disorders

Question 1

What are the key features in Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

Answer 1

• Marko has always been struggling with angry and irritable mood, often looses his temper and can quite easily get annoyed
• He often likes to deliberately annoy others, argues constantly and when things goes wrong, well its never his fault
• Marko is known for being vindictive

Question 2

What are the key features to Intermittent Explosive Disorder?

Answer 2

• Outbursts from failure to control aggressive impulses, manifested by either
  1. Verbal Aggression or Physical Aggression, twice a week in average over 3 months
  2. At least 3 outbursts involving damage or destruction of property and/or physical assault
• Grossly out of proportion
• Impulsive and not pre-planned

Question 3

What are the key features of Conduct Disorder

Answer 3

• A repetitive and persistant pattern of behaviour in which involve basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated
• A person whom often show agression to people and/or animals, by bullying, threatining and initiating fights. Constantly carries a weapon, and maybe forced someone into sexual activity
• Destruction of property or fire setting isnt unusual
• They can break into peoples home, and using lies is second nature to them
• No regards to rules, an adolescent might run away from home without returning back for a longer time
• If person is over 18 years of age, criteria for ASPD is not met

Question 4

What are the key features to Pyromania?

Answer 4

• Deliberate and purposeful fire setting, more than once
• Tension or affective arousal before the act
• Fascination, interest, curiosity, attraction to fire and its situational contexts
• Pleasure, gratification or relief in the aftermath
• Fire setting is not done due to anger, vengenace or result of impaired judgement

Question 5

What are the key features of Kleptomania?

Answer 5

• Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value
• Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing theft
• Pleasure, gratification or relief at the time of committing theft
• Not used to express anger or vengeance or due to hallucination/delusions