Chapter 14 talks about disorders of childhood and adolescence. Oppositional defiant disorder is argumentative and defiant, angry and irritable, and vindictive. The examples for this disorder is argue repeatedly with adults, ignore adult rules and requests, deliberately annoy other people and feel great anger and resentment. It is surprising to know that there are as many as 10 percent of children qualified for this disorder.

The conduct disorder would be kids often aggressive and may be physically cruel to people or animal, destroy other people’s property, skip school or run away from home. This kind of disorder is more repeatedly violate the basic rights of others.

According to the textbook, genetic and biological factors are the cause of those children problems. It is more likely for children become the disorder if their parents are antisocial, display excessive anger, or have substance use, mood, or schizophrenic disorders.

We have discussion on whether the video games that feature violence contribute to oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, or other childhood problems.

My answer to this is yes. There are many scenes like sexual or extremely brutal methods of killing in those video games. Children observe those and will remember the image. As a result, they get numbness when they see it over and over. I have seen many reports about kids commit crime because of the motivation from those video games. I think when they play too much, the distortion concept would occupy their mind which makes they confused among the real world and the fantasy world.