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A child (brat?) has just been diagnosed as having 'conduct disorder' by child psychs referred by the families SW (hopelssly chaotic single-parent household with mum from birth quite unable to or willing to exert any disciplin on any thing). Specific psych problems ruled out eg ADHD, autism etc. Mum delighted at this 'medical' diagnosis as it now means inn her mind when talking to her, that she has no place in the causation or 'treatment' of what she beleives to be a health problem. To their credit the child psychs have tried to start a program of home disciplin etc, but as mum thinks she and her child are now the victim of a health problem, she aint doing so. Are these pseudo-diagnoses not only wrong but are socially defined, but are counterproductive? Is this child simply a brat as a result of social inadequecy. I curse the SW! _________________________________________________________________ Scope out the new MSN Plus Internet Software — optimizes dial-up to the max! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/plus&ST=1