Do adolescents with conduct disorder develop antisocial behavior due to a genetic etiology ?

Question:

Conduct disorder or a disregard for authority or rules demonstrated by maladaptive behavior is thought to develop into sociopathic character traits in adults. Genetics?

Answers:
It would depend who you asked. My studies in abnormal psych have been heavily developmental based. What I think is:

1) There's a diathesis-stress interaction. That is, someone has the predisposition to a condition, but the right circumstances (or stresses) must be in place for it to be activated.

2) Antisocial, sociopathic, psychopathic disorders develop between the ages of 3-7 when the child begins to turn to peers as authority (as opposed to parents). The child that does not learn to balance authority with peer influence (and who has the "diathesis" or predisposition) will develop a conduct disorder.

I did a quick search and found this website that you might find interesting: http://www.education.ucsb.edu/jimerson/cd.html .

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