pattern of conduct

  • 1Conduct Disorder —    The medicalizing of persistent antisocial behavior on the part of children goes back to Cesare Lombroso and the degeneration theorists of the nineteenth century. (See Criminality and Psychiatry; Psychiatric Genetics: degeneration theory [1857] …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 2conduct disorder — a repetitive and persistent pattern of aggressive or otherwise antisocial behaviour. It is usually recognized in childhood or adolescence and can lead to antisocial personality disorder. Treatment is usually with behaviour therapy or family… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 3Conduct disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F91 ICD 9 312 …

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  • 4conduct — con·duct / kän ˌdəkt/ n 1 a: the act, manner, or process of carrying on or managing his conduct of the case was negligent b: an act or omission to act a crime is that conduct which is defined as criminal Louisiana Revised Statutes 2 …

    Law dictionary

  • 5conduct disorder — noun A persistent pattern of antisocial or aggressive behaviour, usu in children or adolescents, which may include vandalism, truancy, assault, substance abuse, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑conduct …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 6conduct — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, accomplishment, achievement, acquit, act, action, actions, activity, acts, address, administer, administration, affectation, agency, air, arrange, attend, attitude, authority, be responsible for, bear,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 7pattern — /ˈpætn / (say patn) noun 1. a decorative design, as for china, wallpaper, textile fabrics, etc. 2. such a design carried out on something. 3. a style of marking of natural or chance origin: patterns of frost on the window. 4. style or type in… …

  • 8pattern — Synonyms and related words: Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea, Platonic form, Platonic idea, action, actions, activity, acts, address, aesthetic form, affectation, air, anatomy, antetype, antitype, archetype, architectonics,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9pattern — A reliable sample of traits, acts or other observable features characterizing an individual. Richerson v. Superior Court In and For Sacramento County, App., 70 Cal.Rptr. 350, 352. The words pattern or practice within the Civil Rights Act… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 10conduct disorder — a repetitive and persistent pattern of aggressive or otherwise antisocial behaviour. It is usually recognized in childhood or adolescence and can lead to antisocial personality disorder. Treatment is usually with behaviour therapy or family… …

    The new mediacal dictionary