Introduction
Conduct disorder, psychiatric disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) has been consistently identified as the second most common psychiatric disorder in youth [While psychological interventions have shown to be effective in treating youth with conduct problems (overview, e.g., in [Thus, it is relevant that a psychological treatment can be perceived by adolescents as helpful in achieving their goals and interpersonally rewarding. Moreover, therapeutic pessimism needs to be revised and substituted with a treatment optimism, likely fostered by providing an etiological model to conduct problems in adolescence and model-based interventions to target them [To reduce the treatment gap, mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with CD (MBT-CD) has been developed [