conduct disorder

English

Noun

conduct disorder (countable and uncountable, plural conduct disorders)

1. A psychological disorder of childhood or adolescence, characterized by persistent antisocial behaviours.
   • 2000, Rita Wicks-Nelson, Allen C. Israel, Behavior Disorders of Childhood, page 188:

     In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters.