title: Aggressive behavior in youth: characteristics, outcome, and psychiatric diagnoses.
abstract: This study evaluated the characteristics and outcome of a group of children and adolescents treated in day hospital and inpatient settings. Severe aggressive/destructive behavior was present in about one-third of the sample and was more common in boys, in children and adolescents with history of parental substance abuse, and in those with a concurrent diagnosis of conduct disorder. Although both an admission diagnosis of conduct disorder and aggressive/destructive behavior as a preadmission variable predicted poor outcome, aggressive/destructive behavior was the more important of the two. Aggressive/destructive behavior in association with conduct disorder seems to confer an especially poor prognosis in hospital-treated youth.
authors.affiliation: Children's Day Hospital, New York.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shindledecker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010553:Personality Development