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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 49980" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Janet, we occasionally get a parent on the primary board whose child has been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder. I have in the past and will continue in the future strongly urge those parents to seek out another opinion as well as to make sure that a full multidisciplinary evaluation has been done. I do this for two reasons. First, CD is a serious diagnosis in the services sense: often a dead end in terms of school services because it pegs the child as total behavioral and often limits what is extended to them. Secondly, the few times it has come through the diagnosis has been given by a psychologist without a full multidisciplinary evaluation. Once what pushed the diagnosis over into CD was a parent checkmark on a form saying the child was cruel to animals and the psychologist interpreted everything to the extreme. I don't excuse cruelty but even my easy child brother was unkind to animals from time to time. Once the neighbors caught my brothers holding a blanket spread out and tossing our cat into the air and catching it on the blanket again. Definitely not nice for the at, but it was more stupid kid stuff.</p><p></p><p>The current DSM text revision pushed the age for CD diagnosis as being possible for young children and I have serious issues with that. Often when parents take the additional steps to get "the works" done an underlying cause or multiple causes are determined. I challenge nearly every parent to make sure a child of this age has a multidisciplinary done so I am not singling out this one disorder. It's so critical at young ages to get as full a grasp on what is going on so that when behaviors have the feel or look or are truly on their way to being CD, it's my hope that early intervention based on a thorough knowledge of the child's issues will turn the tide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 49980, member: 701"] Janet, we occasionally get a parent on the primary board whose child has been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder. I have in the past and will continue in the future strongly urge those parents to seek out another opinion as well as to make sure that a full multidisciplinary evaluation has been done. I do this for two reasons. First, CD is a serious diagnosis in the services sense: often a dead end in terms of school services because it pegs the child as total behavioral and often limits what is extended to them. Secondly, the few times it has come through the diagnosis has been given by a psychologist without a full multidisciplinary evaluation. Once what pushed the diagnosis over into CD was a parent checkmark on a form saying the child was cruel to animals and the psychologist interpreted everything to the extreme. I don't excuse cruelty but even my easy child brother was unkind to animals from time to time. Once the neighbors caught my brothers holding a blanket spread out and tossing our cat into the air and catching it on the blanket again. Definitely not nice for the at, but it was more stupid kid stuff. The current DSM text revision pushed the age for CD diagnosis as being possible for young children and I have serious issues with that. Often when parents take the additional steps to get "the works" done an underlying cause or multiple causes are determined. I challenge nearly every parent to make sure a child of this age has a multidisciplinary done so I am not singling out this one disorder. It's so critical at young ages to get as full a grasp on what is going on so that when behaviors have the feel or look or are truly on their way to being CD, it's my hope that early intervention based on a thorough knowledge of the child's issues will turn the tide. [/QUOTE]
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