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Conduct Disorder has been a growing concern in children. Conduct disorder is a personality issue and is one of the most difficult disorders to deal with in children and adolescence. When a child has conduct disorder, he or she displays anti social behaviors such as lying, stealing, and physical violence. (Berenstein, Bettina.) In previous research, conduct disorder has been found to be caused by second hand smoke, alcohol consumption during pregnancy, and family issues which has caused the child to have high stress levels. Behaviors used to classify conduct disorder are placed under four categories; Agression towards people and animals, Destruction of property without aggression, decietfulness lying and theft, and lastly, serious violation of rules. Conduct disorder usually starts in middle childhood as opositional defiance behavior, and once the child is older it is then classified as conduct disorder. Opositional defiant disorder (ODD), has the same characteristics as conduct disorder, (CD). It developes into CD after a period of time when the behavior is intensified. (Berenstein, Bettina) Conduct disorder has no treatment, the best suggestion for it is continuous therapy and perhaps a change of environment. Communication between home and school is important at a younger age so that the teachers and parents are on the same page with the childs behavior and routines. 5 out of every 100 teens are diagnosed with conduct disorder, however many teens that may have it are unaware and never get themselves tested for it.