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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School Psychologist here...I have given the conners thousands of times...I always wondered if any parent would get upset over the nature of some of the questions....but not once in my years as a veteran psych...until I saw this thread. [/quote]

Same here! [/quote]

I have been a school psychologist for 24 years.  (To my school psych peeps- on the  Conners 4 you can now disable conduct disorder questions and print out the questionnaires without them!) I do warn parents that the Connors is for ages 6 to 18 so a few of the questions are not appropriate for elementary school students, so don't be alarmed if there are a few questions about using a weapon, etc. They can skip those or put never or if they have occurred to call me to discuss it. The reason those questions are there is that they are from taken from the criteria to meet Conduct Disorder in the DSM-5. The criteria to meet it is:

A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated, as manifested by the presence of three (or more) of the following 15 criteria in the past 12 months from any of the categories below, with at least one criterion present in the past 6 months:

Aggression to people and animals
[i]often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others
often initiates physical fights
has used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others (e.g., a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, gun)
has been physically cruel to people
has been physically cruel to animals
has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, extortion, armed robbery)
has forced someone into sexual activity[/I]

Destruction of property
[i]has deliberately engaged in fire setting with the intention of causing serious damage
has deliberately destroyed others’ property (other than by fire setting)
Deceitfulness or theft
has broken into someone else’s house, building, or car
often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., “cons” others)
has stolen items of nontrivial value without confronting a victim (e.g., shoplifting, but without breaking and entering; forgery)[/I]

Serious violations of rules
[i]often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions, beginning before age 13 years
has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in parental or parental surrogate home (or once without returning for a lengthy period)
is often truant from school, beginning before age 13 years[/i]
The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.[/quote]

thanks for that explanation! that makes sense - the kid was getting screened for conduct disorder not ADHD. Can you even diagnose conduct disorder in a 9 year old?

and while you’re here, any other tips for parents on evaluations? [/quote]

School psychologist again. No, the kid wasn’t getting screened for conduct disorder.

There are parent teacher and student (they rate them self) versions of the  Connors. Each version has a mix of questions that cover specific areas. It has questions about all 9 symptoms for ADHD inattentive, and all 9 for ADHD hyperactive/impulsive, and oppositional defiant disorder. It also has questions about depression, anxiety, schoolwork, peer relations, and more. When you complete the Conners the questions are all mixed up, as in the first question is about adhd inattentive, question 2 anxiety, question 3 schoolwork, question 4 peer relations, etc.

I really don’t think the self rating scales or teacher rating scales have questions about “forced someone into sexual activity”  but for sure the parent version does. At least the third edition didn’t. The parent and self rating scale do have a question have you used a weapon.

The conners just came out with an updated version and the conduct disorder questions can be removed before printing out the form. So I always use that version now.

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I am a teacher and the question about forcing is definitely on the teacher version.  [/quote]

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