Author : Ruth Wells
If you are a teacher who finds that "nothing works"
to manage some students, this article may help. It's
way past time for you to learn about ODD, Oppositional
Defiant Disorder.In college, you probably got very little training
on basic mental health, but if you've been teaching
for more than five minutes, you know that little bit
of training wasn't enough. Here's just a quick
peek at what they should have taught you in college
about basic juvenile mental health. Be aware however
that this article gives you just 1% of what you will
need to know in your classroom in order to maintain
control and best assist each challenged student.Be sure to visit our web site (http://www.youthchg.com)
to get more crucial mental health information you need.
You can also look more on the net to track down other
sources of aid.WHAT DOES "OPPOSITIONAL-DEFIANT" MEAN?"Oppositional-Defiant" is a mental health diagnosis that
describes kids that have consciences but sometimes act
like they don't. This diagnosis can only be applied by
a mental health professional but will be very important
for any youth worker to know and understand. This
diagnosis is far more hopeful than "conduct disorder,"
which means the child lacks a conscience and a real
capacity for relationships. While the oppositional-
defiant child (ODD) may also appear to have little
conscience or relationship capacity, you may be able to
improve that with the right approach and methods. With
conduct disordered youth, such improvement may not
be possible.** WHAT DOES "OPPOSITIONAL-DEFIANCE" LOOK LIKE?Oppositional-defiant kids are often some of your most
misbehaved students. They may disrupt your class,
hurt others, defy authority and engage in illegal
or problematic conduct. Though they may look similar
to conduct disorders, their bad behavior is usually
less severe, less frequent, and of shorter duration.
The ODD label is often inaccurately applied as this
dynamic can be a difficult concept to grasp and apply.
Many ADD youth are also ODD, and boys dominate
this category.**THE 3 AREAS OF HELP FOR ODD YOUTHThe thrust of helping the ODD child must focus on
1) Skill building, plus 2)"Pulling up" that
conscience and 3)Improving their relationship skills.
For skill building, teaching them how to regulate their
anger, actions, peer skills, verbal output, etc. will
be critical. But equally important, this child must
be aided to care about others and to be guided more
by conscience. These interventions will only focus
on stimulating that conscience or "compensating" for it.
If you want more than the handful of ideas given here,
or, you want to see how to build skills or
relationship capacity, the other two crucial aspects
to concentrate on with ODD kids, then you will need tofurther investigate this topic.**EXAMPLE STRATEGIES TO STIMULATE THE CONSCIENCE OF ODD KIDS*** To help "pull up" the child's conscience, use
this intervention. It can be used pro-actively or
reactively (before or after the child has engaged in
misbehavior.) For example, let's say the child has
stolen the teacher's pen, you can say "I want you to
imagine that we're making a video about your life.
Are you impressed?" That "uncomfortable sensation that
the child may have in reaction to this intervention may
be the conscience stirring.*** Another intervention to stimulate the conscience:
after the child has engaged in a problem behavior, such
as stealing a pen, as in the example above, ask the
child, "So what's your integrity worth to you?"Remember: you've just gotten a tiny portion of the
information you need on ODD students. Please be sure to
read more, go to a training, or otherwise update your
skills. Our web site (link below)
has more free help if you want quick answers.Get much more information on this topic at
http://www.youthchg.comAuthor Ruth
Herman Wells MS is the director of Youth Change,
(http://www.youthchg.com) Sign up for her free
Problem-Kid Problem-Solver magazine at the site and
see hundreds more of her innovative methods. Ruth
is the author of dozens of books and provides workshops and training.
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