ABSTRACT
The identification of individual and psychosocial risk factors of conduct disorder (CD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) has prompted considerable scientific inquiry in recent years. Given the value in understanding and preventing the development of these complex forms of psychopathology, such pursuit is understandable. Efforts to predict and prevent the deleterious effects associated with conduct problems1 in youth have uncovered an array of early physiological features, behavioral patterns, and environmental situations that seem to precede the onset of CD and ODD.
