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Plenum Publishing Corporation 575

07/2004;
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ABSTRACT this paper is to report on aggressive behavior as defined by the aggressive Syndrome (AGG) of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991a) and Teacher Report Form (TRF; Achenbach, 1991c). The AGG syndrome (see Table I for a complete description of AGG items) is associated with negative behavioral outcomes and has been shown to be a good predictor of DSM oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in young children and conduct disorder (CD) in older children. Loeber et al. (2000) describe the essential features of ODD as "a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, which leads to impairment, and the essential features of CD are a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others and major age-appropriate societal norms or Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, (Division of Human Genetics), Center for Children Youth and Families, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington Vermont

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