Referred adolescent boys with severe disruptive behaviors.
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria of the adolescents with disruptive behaviors: 1. The adolescent is a boy; 2. The adolescent is between 12 and 23 years old; 3. The adolescent meets the diagnostic criteria of a DSM-IV-TR or DSM-5 diagnosis of an oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder (CD); 4. The adolescent has committed at least one criminal act. A community sample, consisting of adolescent boys who have been recruited at a secondary school, will serve as control group.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria of the adolescents with disruptive behaviors: 1. The adolescent has acute mental health problems that require an immediate psychiatric intervention; 2. The adolescent has insufficient mastery of the Dutch language. 3. The adolescent has insufficient cognitive abilities to fill out the questionnaires.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome of this study will consist of the externalising schema modes, as assessed with the 80-items version of the Schema Mode Inventory-research version (SMI-r; Lobbestael, van Vreeswijk, Spinhoven, Schouten, & Arntz, 2010; Keulen-de Vos et al., 2015). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The secondary outcomes of this study for both groups will include schemas of disconnection and rejection, as assessed with the Young Schema Questionnaire for Adolescents (YSQ-A; Van Vlierberghe, Rijkeboer, Hamers, & Braet, 2004). For the referred group, we will also include as a secondary outcome mental health problems, more specific disruptive behaviors, as assessed with the Dutch version of the Strenghts and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goedhart, Treffers, & Van Widenfelt, 2003), and the internalising and healthy schema modes (SMI-r; Lobbestael, van Vreeswijk, Spinhoven, Schouten, & Arntz, 2010; Keulen-de Vos et al., 2015). | — |