Explaining Disruptive, Impulse-Control disorders, and Conduct Disorder

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Angry irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior against authority figure for at least 6 months

Annoys other

Blames others for his/her mistakes

Precede the development of conduct disorder

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Behavioral outbursts, failure to control aggressive impulses

Verbal aggression, physical aggression twice weekly for a period of 3 months

At least 6 yrs of age

Quite common regardless of the presence of ADHD or other disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder

Conduct Disorder

A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated

Often bullies, initiates fights, physically cruel, destroying properties, theft, serious violation of rules

Onset may occur as early as the preschool years, but the first significant symptoms usually emerge during the period from middle childhood through middle adolescence

Pyromania

Purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion

Arousal before the act

Fascination to fire and its situational context

Not done for monetary or gain

Separate diagnosis is not given when fire setting occurs as part of CD, manic episode, or antisocial personality disorder

Kleptomania

Failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use

Increase tension before committing the theft

Pleasure after committing the theft