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Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

  • 1st Edition - June 15, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Michelle M. Martel
  • Language: English

Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders provides essential understanding on how disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) is characterized, its early… Read more

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Description

Developmental Pathways to Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders provides essential understanding on how disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) is characterized, its early markers and etiology, and the empirically-based treatment for the disorder. The book covers features and assessment of various DBDs, including oppositional-defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and antisocial personality disorder, the psychological markers of externalizing problems, such as irritability and anger, common elements of effective evidence-based treatments for DBD for behavioral treatments, cognitive therapies, and family and community therapies. A final section discusses new and emerging insights in the prevention and treatment of DBD.

Key features

  • Provides a critical foundation for understanding how disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) is defined
  • Looks at early markers and etiology of DBD
  • Goes beyond the surface-level treatment provided by other books, offering in-depth coverage of various DBDs, such as oppositional-defiant disorder and antisocial personality disorder
  • Examines the causal factors and developmental pathways implicated in DBD
  • Includes cutting-edge insights into the prevention of DBD prior to the emergence of symptoms

Readership

Researchers, clinicians, and students studying/working in clinical and developmental psychology

Table of contents

1. Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders

2. Oppositional Defiant Disorder

3. Conduct Disorder

4. Antisocial Personality Disorder

5. Negative Affect

6. Callous-unemotional Traits

7. Cognitive Attribution Bias

8. Sensation-seeking and risk-taking

9. Behavioral Treatments

10. Cognitive Therapies

11. Anger Management

12. Family and Community Therapies

13. Developmental Pathways

14. Integrative theory and treatment; Prevention

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 15, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Michelle M. Martel

Dr. Martel’s research utilizes a translational, “bench to bedside” perspective to examine developmental pathways to disruptive behavior disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, using multiple levels of analysis.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

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