Individual heterogeneity exists in the onset and development of conduct problems, but theoretical claims about predictors and prognosis are often not consistent with the empirical findings. This study examined shape and outcomes of conduct problem trajectories in a Belgian population-based sample (N = 682; 49.5 % boys). Mothers reported on children's conduct problems across six waves (age 4-17)...

The development of conduct problems in childhood and adolescence is associated with adverse long-term outcomes, including psychiatric morbidity. Although genes constitute a proven factor of stability in conduct problems, less is known regarding their role in conduct problems' developmental course (i.e. systematic age changes, for instance linear increases or decreases).Mothers rated conduct pro...

As science correspondent of the venerable British newspaper The Sunday Times between 1991 and 1994, Neville Hodgkinson persistently questioned the role of HIV in AIDS, the danger to heterosexuals and the growing dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Now he has written the portentously entitled AIDS — The Failure of Contemporary Science (Fourth Estate), which describes and attempts to perpe...

LITERATURE REVIEW Antisocial behavior is inevitable in the course of development of children and is among the most common presenting complaints in the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry. Its relationship to psychopathology is complex (Robins et al, 1991; Raine, 1993; Wehby et al., 1993; Carey, 1994; Gureje et al., 1994; Rutter, 1996). Not all-antisocial behavior is pathological, theref...

There is a wide range of studies linking Eysenck’s model of personality with delinquency. Nevertheless, the results are contradictory and less well documented for adolescents. In this paper we aim to explore the link between the personality traits of the Big-Five model and the presence of a conduct disorder. In order to develop efficient prevention programs for delinquent behavior, we also real...

Children with disruptive behavior disorders experience substantial social challenges; however, the factors that account for (i.e., mediate), or influence (i.e., moderate), peer problems are not well understood. This study tested whether symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder were associated with peer impairment and whether prosocial skills mediated or moderated these ass...