Discuss the psychosocial risk factors associated with the development of conduct problems.

Studies have consistently demonstrated that poor parenting, including low monitoring, harsh and inconsistent discipline, and child abuse is strongly linked to externalizing difficulties in children and youth. Other correlates include peer rejection, associating with deviant peers, parental psychopathology, lone-parent families, large family size, and teenage parenthood. Children and youth living in poverty are more likely to display conduct problems.