480 Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control,
 and Conduct Disorder
312.9 (F91.9)
This category applies to presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a disruptive,
impulse-control, and conduct disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impair-
ment in social, occupational, or other impor tant areas of functioning predominate but do
not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the disruptive, impulse-control, and con-
duct disorders diagnostic class. The unspecif ied disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct
disorder category is used in situations in which the clinician chooses not to specify the rea-
son that the criteria are not met for a specific disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct dis-
order, and includes presentations in which there is insufficient information to make a more
specific diagnosis (e.g., in emergency room settings).