We examine intervention outcomes on children's anticipation of and response to a social challenge, as well as diurnal
patterns,
because considerable evidence suggests that
abnormal HPA activity in children with or at risk for conduct disorders may be context specific.7, 9,11,13,28
Developmental psychopathology is just as interested in an individual who has not followed a normal development
pattern but does not exhibit disorders as it is in an individual who exhibits
abnormal behavior
because of developmental deviations.