{ "schemaVersion": 2, "eyebrow": "Child Psychiatry", "title": "Oppositional Defiant Disorder", "summary": "Evaluate persistent defiance by confirming clinically significant impairment, separating oppositional behavior from conduct disorder and chronic irritability syndromes, identifying ADHD and other comorbidity, and initiating parent-focused behavioral treatment while treating coexisting disorders with diagnosis-specific care.", "seoDescription": "Point-of-care approach to oppositional defiant disorder: diagnostic boundaries, comorbidity assessment, prognosis, behavioral treatment, and medication decisions.", "clinicalQuestion": "How should clinicians diagnose, differentiate, and manage oppositional defiant disorder in children and adolescents?", "specialty": "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry", "audience": "U.S. physicians and medical trainees", "tags": [ "oppositional defiant disorder", "ODD", "disruptive behavior disorders", "conduct disorder", "ADHD comorbidity", "parent management training" ], "keyTakeaways": [ "Diagnose ODD only when angry/irritable, argumentative/defiant, or vindictive behavior is persistent, outside age- and socioculturally expected behavior, and associated with meaningful functional impairment. [18][20]", "Actively distinguish ODD from conduct disorder: serious aggression, dissocial behavior, or violations of others' rights shift the diagnosis and risk formulation toward conduct disorder. [7][22]", "Assess ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, learning disorders, and family or school context because these comorbidities commonly shape the treatment target and prognosis. [3][9][16]", "Use parent-focused behavioral intervention as the core treatment; add behavioral therapy to ADHD medication when oppositional behavior or parent-child discord persists. [1][4][5]", "Do not prescribe medication solely for ODD in routine nonspecialist care; if ADHD or another co-occurring disorder is present, treat that disorder with diagnosis-specific management and specialist involvement when medication is being considered. [5][6]" ], "sections": [ { "id": "clinical-triage", "eyebrow": "First visit", "heading": "Identify safety, severity, and the diagnostic branch", "intro": "The first decision is whether the presentation is isolated oppositional behavior, conduct disorder, chronic irritability, or behavior secondary to another disorder.", "paragraphs": [ "Obtain separate history from the child or adolescent and caregiver, then obtain school or other setting collateral before assigning an ODD diagnosis. Establish the onset, persistence, settings, specific triggers, adult-child interaction pattern, aggression, property destruction, theft, deceit, truancy, cruelty, weapon access, self-harm, suicidal behavior, psychotic symptoms, sleep disruption, substance exposure, maltreatment concerns, and functional consequences at home, school, and with peers. ODD requires behavior clearly outside the expected range for developmental age and sociocultural context; impairment rather than defiance alone should determine whether a disorder-level formulation is appropriate. [7][18][20]", "Escalate the assessment when aggression or dissocial acts extend beyond angry, provocative, or defiant behavior. ICD-10 characterizes ODD by defiance, disobedience, and provocation without the more severe aggressive or dissocial acts that violate law or others' rights; those acts support evaluation for conduct disorder rather than uncomplicated ODD. [7][22]", "Screen immediately for risk to self or others and for child maltreatment when the history, injuries, fearfulness, coercive family dynamics, or abrupt behavioral change raises concern. Maltreatment may present during routine care or through caregivers, schools, emergency departments, or investigative pathways, and requires a health-sector response rather than attribution of behavior solely to ODD. [6]" ], "bullets": [ "Document whether problematic behavior occurs with one caregiver only, across home and school, or across most interpersonal settings; cross-setting impairment supports a broader disorder and guides where parent and school interventions must be deployed. [3][18]", "Treat school failure, peer exclusion, family disruption, legal exposure, and escalating aggression as severity markers requiring a more comprehensive psychiatric and developmental assessment. [9][16]", "If serious violence, credible threats, suicidal behavior, psychosis, delirium, or inability of caregivers to maintain safety is present, arrange urgent psychiatric or emergency evaluation rather than initiating an outpatient ODD-only plan." ], "subsections": [], "table": { "caption": "Behavioral patterns that change the diagnostic pathway. [7][17][20][22]", "columns": [ "Pattern", "Key discriminator", "Next clinical action" ], "rows": [ [ "Oppositional defiant disorder", "Persistent angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness with social impairment; behavior is outside expected developmental and sociocultural norms. [18][20]", "Assess impairment, context, ADHD, emotional disorders, learning problems, and caregiver-child interactions; initiate parent-focused behavioral treatment. [1][4][5]" ], [ "Conduct disorder", "Aggressive or dissocial behavior with serious violation of others' rights or law exceeds the ODD pattern. [7][22]", "Perform a higher-acuity risk, safeguarding, school, peer, and family assessment; formulate treatment around conduct symptoms and co-occurring conditions." ], [ "Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder", "Chronic severe irritability and temper outbursts require a mood-focused diagnostic assessment; diagnostic reliability and frequency thresholds remain clinically consequential. [17]", "Clarify longitudinal irritability, outburst pattern, impairment, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and diagnostic overlap before selecting treatment." ], [ "ADHD with oppositional behavior", "Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity are prominent and may coexist with ODD; ADHD clinical samples report oppositional defiant disorder among common comorbidities. [3]", "Use DSM-5-based ADHD rating scales and treat confirmed ADHD while adding behavioral intervention for persistent opposition or parent-child discord. [1][19]" ] ] } }, { "id": "diagnostic-assessment", "eyebrow": "Diagnostic workup", "heading": "Confirm impairment and identify treatable drivers", "intro": "A diagnosis based only on a caregiver complaint risks missing developmental, psychiatric, educational, and environmental causes of disruptive behavior.", "paragraphs": [ "Map the behavior into the three DSM-5 ODD domains: angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. The DSM-5 retained the prior symptom threshold substantially unchanged while grouping symptoms by these dimensions; severity and functional impairment are more clinically useful than treating any single defiant behavior as diagnostic. [18]", "Use a structured multi-informant assessment to establish duration, symptom frequency, antecedents, consequences, and impairment. Diagnostic stability rises with greater initial severity: reported odds ratios for later diagnostic stability were 3.2 for mild, 6.0 for moderate, and 8.3 for severe ODD. This supports documenting severity explicitly and reassessing lower-severity presentations rather than assuming a fixed disorder trajectory. [18]", "Evaluate for ADHD with DSM-5-based rating scales when distractibility, impulsivity, hyperactivity, disorganization, or classroom disruption is reported. In clinical samples of children and adolescents with ADHD, reported comorbidity includes oppositional defiant disorder in 35%, conduct disorder in 30% to 50%, anxiety disorders in 25%, mood disorders in 15% to 75%, and learning disabilities in 25%; the wide mood-disorder range reinforces the need for direct mood assessment rather than inference from irritability alone. [3][19]", "Assess anxiety, depressive symptoms, trauma exposure, autism spectrum disorder, developmental language or learning problems, sleep disturbance, seizures or other neurologic symptoms, and substance use when age-appropriate. Child psychiatric clinic data show frequent psychiatric and physical comorbidity and support comprehensive assessment rather than a single principal behavioral diagnosis. [9][16]" ], "bullets": [ "Obtain teacher and school input on classroom behavior, academic performance, attendance, learning concerns, peer conflict, disciplinary events, and response to prior behavior plans. [3][9]", "Ask whether defiance is situational and relationship-specific versus pervasive; a pattern limited to a particular environment should prompt examination of demands, reinforcement contingencies, bullying, learning mismatch, family conflict, or trauma exposure before labeling the child globally oppositional. [7][18]", "Assess family stressors and parent-child discord directly because persistent discord is a specific indication for adding behavioral therapy to medication management of comorbid ADHD. [1]" ], "subsections": [ { "heading": "When to reconsider the formulation", "paragraphs": [ "Reconsider ODD as the primary formulation when the child has pervasive social-communication differences, developmental regression, episodic mood change, psychotic symptoms, trauma-related reactivity, significant cognitive or language limitations, seizure-like events, or behavior occurring primarily during academic demands that exceed current learning capacity. These patterns require disorder-specific assessment and intervention rather than intensification of discipline alone. [9][14][15][16]" ], "bullets": [] } ], "table": { "caption": "Assessment domains that determine the next intervention. [1][3][7][9][16][19]", "columns": [ "Domain", "What to establish", "Management consequence" ], "rows": [ [ "Functional impairment", "Effects on home, school, peers, and social functioning. [20]", "Use impairment to distinguish clinically significant ODD from developmentally expected conflict and to set measurable treatment targets. [18][20]" ], [ "ADHD symptoms", "DSM-5-based ADHD rating-scale findings plus impairment across settings. [19]", "Treat confirmed ADHD; add behavioral therapy if oppositional behavior or parent-child discord persists. [1][3]" ], [ "Conduct symptoms", "Aggression, dissocial behavior, and rights violations beyond defiance. [7][22]", "Shift to a conduct-disorder risk and treatment formulation, including safety and safeguarding assessment." ], [ "Mood and anxiety symptoms", "Persistent irritability, episodic mood change, depression, anxiety, and suicidality. [3][17]", "Do not assume irritability is ODD; determine whether a mood or anxiety disorder is driving behavior." ], [ "Learning and developmental profile", "Academic difficulties, language concerns, developmental history, autism features, and school supports. [3][9][15]", "Arrange educational and developmental evaluation and align behavioral expectations with functional capacity." ] ] } }, { "id": "treatment-plan", "eyebrow": "Treatment", "heading": "Build treatment around caregivers, settings, and comorbidity", "intro": "Treatment should target the interactional and functional pattern sustaining behavior, not simply suppress visible defiance.", "paragraphs": [ "Offer parent management training or another structured parent-focused behavioral intervention as the central treatment approach. Parent management training and cognitive problem-solving skills training are established psychosocial approaches for antisocial and disruptive behavior, and behavioral therapy is specifically added in ADHD care when oppositional behavior or parent-child discord persists. [1][4][5]", "Create a written behavioral plan with caregivers and, when school impairment is present, with school personnel. Define two to three observable target behaviors, the setting and trigger, the adult response, the child reward or consequence, and a review interval. The clinical target should be functional change—fewer severe conflicts, improved school participation, safer behavior, or reduced disciplinary events—rather than eliminating all disagreement.", "When ADHD is confirmed and impairing, manage it as ADHD rather than using a medication solely for ODD. In the Multimodal Treatment Study cited in cardiovascular monitoring guidance, parent and teacher ratings of ADHD symptoms improved more with stimulant medication than intensive behavioral treatment; behavioral therapy remains relevant when oppositional behavior or parent-child discord is persistent. [1][3]", "Do not use pharmacotherapy as routine monotherapy for ODD. WHO guidance advises that nonspecialized providers should not offer methylphenidate, lithium, carbamazepine, or risperidone for disruptive behavior disorders, conduct disorder, ODD, or comorbid ADHD without specialist referral before prescribing. This is particularly important when considering agents with substantial neurologic, metabolic, or cardiovascular monitoring burdens. [6]" ], "bullets": [ "For confirmed ODD without a medication-responsive comorbid disorder, prioritize structured caregiver intervention, child-focused problem-solving work when developmentally appropriate, and school-based consistency. [4][5]", "For ODD with confirmed ADHD, combine ADHD treatment with behavioral intervention when opposition or parent-child discord remains clinically significant. [1][3]", "For ODD with conduct symptoms, aggression, suicidality, trauma exposure, severe mood symptoms, developmental complexity, or medication consideration, involve child and adolescent mental health specialists and coordinate with school and safeguarding systems as indicated. [6][9][16]", "Consider structured physical exercise as an adjunct for children and adolescents with comorbid ADHD when attention, executive functioning, anxiety, or problem behaviors are treatment targets; the recommendation is conditional and based on very low-certainty evidence. [12]" ], "subsections": [ { "heading": "Medication cautions", "paragraphs": [ "Clonidine is sometimes combined with stimulants in practice for ADHD with comorbid oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, tics, or insomnia, but historical reports of sudden death in children receiving clonidine-stimulant combinations require careful specialist-directed risk assessment and monitoring. [3] Medication selection should follow the diagnosed comorbid condition and not substitute for caregiver and behavioral intervention." ], "bullets": [] } ], "table": { "caption": "Treatment selection by clinical formulation. [1][3][4][5][6][12]", "columns": [ "Clinical formulation", "Initial intervention", "Escalation trigger" ], "rows": [ [ "ODD without major comorbidity", "Parent management training; consider child cognitive problem-solving work and coordinated school behavior supports. [4][5]", "Persistent functional impairment, aggression, safeguarding concern, or inability to implement a consistent plan." ], [ "ODD plus ADHD", "Treat confirmed ADHD and add behavioral therapy for persistent oppositional behavior or parent-child discord. [1][3]", "Failure to improve across settings, complex adverse effects, diagnostic uncertainty, or consideration of combination pharmacotherapy. [3][6]" ], [ "ODD plus anxiety, depression, or chronic irritability", "Complete disorder-specific psychiatric assessment and address the emotional disorder driving impairment. [3][17]", "Suicidality, marked functional decline, episodic mood symptoms, psychosis, or diagnostic uncertainty." ], [ "ODD plus conduct symptoms", "Conduct a safety, rights-violation, peer, school, family, and safeguarding assessment; do not manage as uncomplicated ODD. [7][22]", "Violence, cruelty, weapons, legal involvement, victimization, or caregiver inability to maintain safety." ], [ "ODD plus learning or developmental disorder", "Obtain school and developmental assessment; use specialized instructional support when a developmental learning disorder is identified. [3][12][15]", "Severe academic failure, communication limitations, autism features, or inadequate response to standard behavioral planning." ] ] } }, { "id": "monitoring-prognosis", "eyebrow": "Follow-up", "heading": "Measure functioning and watch for progression to conduct disorder", "intro": "Follow-up should test whether the formulation is correct by tracking behavior across settings and detecting escalation early.", "paragraphs": [ "At each follow-up, review the predefined target behaviors with caregiver and school data: frequency and severity of outbursts, defiance episodes, aggression, school attendance, suspensions, peer conflict, caregiver stress, and adherence to the behavioral plan. If improvement occurs only in one setting, modify the reinforcement plan or reassess the environmental drivers rather than assuming global response.", "Monitor specifically for emerging conduct-disorder symptoms. In a longitudinal study, childhood ODD predicted later conduct disorder with an odds ratio of 7.9; after adjustment for baseline conduct disorder, ODD continued to predict later conduct disorder in boys (odds ratio 6.5) but not girls in that analysis. These findings support active surveillance but do not mean that ODD inevitably progresses to conduct disorder. [21]", "Reassess diagnostic severity when impairment persists despite an implemented parent and school plan. Greater initial ODD severity was associated with greater diagnostic stability, making persistent moderate or severe impairment a reason to intensify multimodal care and reconsider comorbid ADHD, mood, anxiety, learning, developmental, trauma-related, and conduct presentations. [18][3][9]" ], "bullets": [ "Track conduct symptoms separately from oppositional symptoms; increasing aggression, deceit, theft, serious rule violations, or rights violations changes the diagnosis and immediate risk plan. [7][22]", "Track ADHD, anxiety, mood, and learning symptoms in parallel because treatment response in one domain may clarify whether opposition was primary or secondary. [3][9][16]", "If medication is used for a diagnosed comorbid disorder, monitor the medication according to the relevant disorder-specific protocol and maintain behavioral intervention rather than using medication as the only ODD treatment. [1][3][6]" ], "subsections": [], "table": { "caption": "Follow-up findings that require a change in plan. [3][7][18][21][22]", "columns": [ "Follow-up finding", "Interpretation", "Next step" ], "rows": [ [ "Reduced conflict at home but unchanged school impairment", "The intervention may not be generalized or school, learning, or ADHD factors may remain untreated. [3][9]", "Obtain teacher feedback, revise the school plan, and reassess ADHD and learning needs." ], [ "Increasing aggression or rights violations", "Possible evolution toward conduct disorder rather than uncomplicated ODD. [7][22]", "Repeat safety and safeguarding assessment and obtain specialty mental health evaluation." ], [ "Persistent severe irritability or recurrent explosive outbursts", "ODD may overlap with or be secondary to a chronic irritability or mood syndrome. [17]", "Reassess longitudinal mood symptoms, impairment, and alternative diagnoses." ], [ "No improvement after a consistently implemented caregiver plan", "Reconsider severity, adherence, comorbidity, developmental capacity, trauma, and environmental reinforcement. 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ECIs are needed for a child and family is based on", "score": 0.33908364 }, { "number": 9, "title": "Pattern of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders ...", "detail": "www.emro.who.int", "url": "https://www.emro.who.int/emhj/V18/02/18_2_2012_0112_0119.pdf", "authors": "www.emro.who.int", "host": "www.emro.who.int", "snippet": "Table 3 Principal diagnosis recorded for children and adolescents attending child psychiatric clinics (n = 899) Principal diagnosis No.\n% Mental retardation 271 30.2 Anxiety disorder 145 16.1 Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder 119 13.2 Autistic spectrum disorder 112 12.5 Seizure disorder 87 9.", "score": 0.29810348 }, { "number": 10, "title": "Psychiatric problems and suicidal behaviour in ...", "detail": "www.emro.who.int", "url": "https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-18-2012/issue-4/article-2.html", "authors": "www.emro.who.int", "host": "www.emro.who.int", "snippet": "by A Ghanizadeh · 1995 · Cited by 35 — Nearly 70% of the adolescents had at least one current psychiatric disorder, the commonest being: conduct disorder (55%), oppositional defiant disorder (48%)", "score": 0.29539806 }, { "number": 11, "title": "WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential ...", "detail": "cdn.who.int", "url": "https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/2025-eml-expert-committee/comments/a.19_comments_eunethydis.pdf?sfvrsn=d1ad88fa_1", "authors": "cdn.who.int", "host": "cdn.who.int", "snippet": "effects and has good tolerability11. 5. Given the above, methylphenidate medication is a recommended treatment option in all authoritative international guidelines for ADHD, such as those by NICE (UK), SIGN (Scotland), CADDRA (Canada), AACAP (USA), AADPA (Australia), and by guidelines in many other ", "score": 0.28259248 }, { "number": 12, "title": "Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline for ...", "detail": "iris.who.int", "url": "https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/93e56376-0e64-4a08-bdd0-703313be5354/content", "authors": "iris.who.int", "host": "iris.who.int", "snippet": "Motor twitching See convulsion.\nNeuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) A rare but life-threatening condition caused by antipsychotic medication, which is characterized by fever, delirium, muscular rigidity and high blood pressure.\nOccupational therapy Therapy designed to help individuals improve their", "score": 0.25354248 }, { "number": 13, "title": "LEAD EXPOSURE IN AFRICAN CHILDREN - IRIS", "detail": "iris.who.int", "url": "https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780869707876.pdf?sequence=1", "authors": "iris.who.int", "host": "iris.who.int", "snippet": "by World Health Organization · 2015 · Cited by 24 — Lead is associated with behavioural problems, including characteristics of Conduct Disorders and Oppositional Defiant Disorders (DSM IV, 2000).", "score": 0.2428564 }, { "number": 14, "title": "A public health imperative - IRIS", "detail": "iris.who.int", "url": "https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/325293/9789241515931-eng.pdf?sequence=1", "authors": "iris.who.int", "host": "iris.who.int", "snippet": "by World Health Organization · 2019 · Cited by 623 — Although infrequent, psychosis, oppositional defiant and tic disorders may occur in children who have epilepsy. Children with ASD have an increased", "score": 0.23818716 }, { "number": 15, "title": "Children's Mental Health: Pattern of referral, distribution of ...", "detail": "applications.emro.who.int", "url": "https://applications.emro.who.int/imemrf/Pak_J_Med_Sci/Pak_J_Med_Sci_2012_28_1_22_26.pdf", "authors": "applications.emro.who.int", "host": "applications.emro.who.int", "snippet": "of Psychiatric morbidity and multiple needs and in order to address the needs of these children we require the presence of multidisciplinary team, speech therapist being one important member. In the absence of separate services for learning disability in Pakistan at the moment, majority of these chi", "score": 0.218103 }, { "number": 16, "title": "WHO EMRO - Pattern of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders among patients consulting publicly-funded child psychiatric clinics in Saudi Arabia", "detail": "www.emro.who.int", "url": "https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-18-2012/issue-2/article-1.html", "authors": "www.emro.who.int", "host": "www.emro.who.int", "snippet": "similar symptom and diagnostic patterns—ADHD, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and oppositional defiant disorder—were found . [...] but also to determine other comorbid psychiatric and physical disorders and their possible underlying causative factors. Treatment plans should address all recog", "score": 0.19006205 }, { "number": 17, "title": "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder Symptoms and Association with Oppositional Defiant and Other Disorders in a General Population Child Sample", "detail": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4800381", "authors": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "## found that 8% of 6-year-olds in a community sample met DSM-5 DMDD criteria. The DSM-5 estimates that 2–5% of children and adolescents meet DMDD criteria. Our results suggest that variation in the frequency threshold leads to appreciable differences in the prevalence of DMDD symptoms. Using the _", "score": 0.64639384 }, { "number": 18, "title": "Oppositional defiant disorder: current insight", "detail": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5716335", "authors": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "As the recent evidence suggests that there could be more than one dimension to ODD, the DSM-5 divided the diagnostic criteria into three groups – angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness – without any emphasis on any of these particular dimensions for diagnosis. Howev", "score": 0.63939893 }, { "number": 19, "title": "Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, ...", "detail": "stacks.cdc.gov", "url": "https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/85858/cdc_85858_DS1.pdf", "authors": "stacks.cdc.gov", "host": "stacks.cdc.gov", "snippet": "by ML Wolraich · 2019 · Cited by 1784 — DSM-5–based ADHD rating scales. oppositional defiant disorder from preschool diagnostic assessments.", "score": 0.6246834 }, { "number": 20, "title": "DSM-5 Child Mental Disorder Classification - NCBI - NIH", "detail": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712", "authors": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "Oppositional defiant disorder’s (ODD) is characterized by a frequent and persistent pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness that may significantly impair social functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2013b). ODD is primarily viewed as a younger-chil", "score": 0.5363378 }, { "number": 21, "title": "Developmental pathways in Oppositional Defiant Disorder ...", "detail": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3057683", "authors": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "At each assessment up to 16 the child and primary caretaker (usually the mother) were separately interviewed using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA) (Angold & Costello, 2000). The Young Adult Psychiatric Assessment (YAPA) (Angold et al., 2009) was used to interview participants ", "score": 0.52670854 }, { "number": 22, "title": "Beyond Symptom Counts for Diagnosing Oppositional Defiant ...", "detail": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4561600", "authors": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "by O Lindhiem · 2015 · Cited by 62 — The diagnosis of ODD refers to a persistent pattern of negativistic, hostile, defiant, and disobedient behaviors toward others, while CD is characterized by a", "score": 0.4804549 }, { "number": 23, "title": "Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (update)", "detail": "www.nice.org.uk", "url": "https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/evidence/a-risk-factors-pdf-4783686301", "authors": "www.nice.org.uk", "host": "www.nice.org.uk", "snippet": "interview with DISC-C (DSM-III), unadjusted data Number of participants and characteristics Total n = 782, representative sample of general population from New Zealand, 925 in original sample, 782 with interview data Children were 11 years old at interview New Zealand Prognostic variable(s) Anxiety ", "score": 0.28790843 }, { "number": 24, "title": "Mental Illness - Impact of the DSM-IV to DSM-5 Changes on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health - NCBI Bookshelf", "detail": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704", "authors": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "host": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "snippet": "Conduct disorder is believed to be on a spectrum between oppositional defiant disorder (see Table 3.39) and antisocial personality disorder. 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