“…Recent studies highlight an irritable dimension of ODD (Stringaris, Cohen, Pine, & Leibenluft, ; Rowe, Costello, Angold, Copeland, & Maughan, ; Krieger, Polanczyk, et al., ; Whelan, Stringaris, Maughan, & Barker, and Burke et al., ). The symptoms that best define this dimension include “often loses temper,” “often touchy or easily annoyed” and “often angry and resentful” (Evans et al., ). Irritability, when operationalized in the context of the irritable dimension of ODD or as a separate trait, has been found to predict future emotional disorders and depression (Krieger, Polanczyk, et al., ; Rowe et al., ; Stringaris & Goodman, ; Vidal‐Ribas, Brotman, Valdivieso, Leibenluft, & Stringaris, ; Whelan et al., ).…”