Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Conduct disorders

1. COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR INTERVENTIONS
TO REDRESS SOCIAL COGNITIVE DEFICITS
AMONG CHILDREN WITH CONDUCT
DISORDER
Dr.Sony Mary Varghese
Assistant Professor in Education
Peet Memorial Training College
Mavelikara

2. Conduct disorders
• The term ‘conduct disorders’ encompasses
a wide variety of undercontrolled
behaviours. Aggression, lying,
destructiveness, vandalism, theft and
truancy are actions usually covered under
this head. The connecting thread in this
array of behaviours is the violation of
societal norms and the basic rights of
others.

3. Children With Conduct disorders

4. Characteristics
• failure to complete schooling,
• violence against people and
property
• poor interpersonal
relationship,
• family break-up etc

5. Need and significance
❑Experience difficulties in maintaining good
interpersonal relationship
❑Evoke highly negative responses
❑High level of peer rejection
❑ Underlying distortions or deficits in then social
information processing system
❑ Poor database of social schemes and cultural values.
❑Distorts social cognitive skills resulting in socially
undesirable behaviour
❑Cognitive behavior interventions help in reducing
challenging behaviors including anti – social
activities.
❑It produce large improvements in behavioural, social,
cognitive and emotional difficulties too..

6. Objective
• To find out the effectiveness
of cognitive behavior
interventions on social
cognitive deficits of children
with conduct disorders

7. Cognitive behaviour interventions
• Is not a singular approach, but
rather a body of methods and
strategies used to change behavior.
• Behavior change is accomplished
through the active engagement of
the child’s understanding and
taking control of their thoughts,
beliefs, feelings, and behaviors.

8. Cognitive Behaviour Interventions
• Tools necessary to control their own behavior.
• Intervention teaches the use of inner speech
(self talk) to modify underlying cognitions that
affect overt behaviour,
• Internalization of self statements fundamental
to develop self control
• Incorporate strategies using rewards,
modeling, role plays, self evaluation etc.
• Child with conduct disorder can incorporate a
'how to think' framework rather than ‘what to
think’ instruction when modifying behavior.

9. Techniques of CBT
• Self-monitoring – the ability to collect data or
otherwise identify one’s own thoughts and
behavior.
• Self-evaluation – to be able to judge one’s
performance accurately against some
standard of performance.
• Self-reinforcement – the ability to deliver self-
praise or a reward contingently on the display
of a specified desired behavior

10. Methodology
• Sample of 44 students with conduct
disorders
• Single group pretest posttest design
• Cognitive behavior interventions was
used in various
• Social cognitive skill test

11. Analysis and Interpretation
• Comparison of mean pretest and
posttest scores on social cognitive skills
test is (t=4.25, P>0.00) at 0.05 level of
significance.
• This reveals that cognitive behavioural
interventions are found to be effective
on developing social cognitive skills
among children with conduct disorders

12. Discussion
• Smith etal (1994) who found that Cognitive
behavioural intervention strategies have
ameliorated social deficits including aggression
and disruption.
• Brownell etal (1999) also noticed that cognitive
behavioural strategies can decrease
hyperactivity, disruption and aggression among
children with various behavior disorders, thereby
strengthening prosocial behavior