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Commentary: Childhood conduct problems are a public health crisis and require resources: a commentary on Rivenbark et al. ([Rivenbark, J.G., 2018])
Author(s) -
Burt S. Alexandra,
Hyde Luke W.,
Frick Paul J.,
Jaffee Sara R.,
Shaw Daniel S.,
Tremblay Richard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12930
Subject(s) - psychology , psychopathology , conduct disorder , dropout (neural networks) , developmental psychology , criminology , psychiatry , social psychology , machine learning , computer science
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. ([Rivenbark, J.G., 2018]), 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.