Chernobyl defendants in defiant mood

Role of maternal parenting styles in predicting oppositional defiant, behavior, conduct, mood, and separation anxiety disorders among students

The way the parents build their relationships with their children is the strongest factor affecting family interaction patterns. This study aimed to examine the role of maternal parenting styles in predicting oppositional defiant, behavior, conduct, mood, and separation anxiety disorders among elementary school students. In this research, 86 children among all those referring to the counseling ...

Mentally Retarded Criminal Defendants

Selecting Among Acquitted Defendants :

In a previous paper we show how social pressure, in the form of informal sanctions by outside observers, affects choices made by defendants and prosecutors, both with respect to plea offers and to decisions to proceed to trial. In that paper, we assume that the defendant's guilt or innocence is his private information, and that evidence at trial is imperfect and may result in errors in convicti...

Oppositional defiant disorder.

Oppositional defiant disorder is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., as a recurrent pattern of developmentally inappropriate, negativistic, defiant, and disobedient behavior toward authority figures. This behavior often appears in the preschool years, but initially it can be difficult to distinguish from developmentally appropriate, albeit troublesome,...

Defining oppositional defiant disorder.

BACKGROUND ICD-10 and DSM-IV include similar criterial symptom lists for conduct disorder (CD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), but while DSM-IV treats each list separately, ICD-10 considers them jointly. One consequence is that ICD-10 identifies a group of children with ODD subtype who do not receive a diagnosis under DSM-IV. METHODS We examined the characteristics of this group of c...