Commentary: Childhood conduct problems are a public health crisis and require resources: a commentary on Rivenbark et al. ()

S Alexandra Burt; Luke W Hyde; Paul J Frick; Sara R Jaffee; Daniel S Shaw; Richard Tremblay

doi:10.1111/jcpp.12930

Commentary: Childhood conduct problems are a public health crisis and require resources: a commentary on Rivenbark et al. ()

J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2018 Jun;59(6):711-713. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12930.

Authors

S Alexandra Burt¹, Luke W Hyde², Paul J Frick^{3

4}, Sara R Jaffee⁵, Daniel S Shaw⁶, Richard Tremblay^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
² Department of Psychology, Center for Human Growth and Development, Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
⁴ Learning Sciences Institute of Australia, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁷ Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁸ School of Public Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

PMID: 29808490
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12930

Abstract

Conduct problems (CP) are actions that violate societal norms and/or the personal/property rights of others, and include behaviors such as vandalism, theft, bullying, and assault. Roughly 8%-10% of children engage in the more severe childhood-onset form of CP, while another 25% initiate clinically-significant levels of CP during adolescence. As deftly observed in Rivenbark et al. (), however, the high prevalence of CP belies its severity: Youth with CP are at increased risk for a number of deleterious individual outcomes, including academic delay/dropout, low professional achievement, psychopathology, addiction, and family instability.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Bullying*
Child
Child Behavior
Conduct Disorder*
Humans
Problem Behavior*
Public Health

Grants and funding

MR/P005918/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom