Solutions for ODD

Today I began looking for more information about ODD. After figuring out that ODD is an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior towards authority figures, I had asked my family member for a situation that had happened where there child was doing this. She told me that there was one time she had went to go pick up her son from school and he wouldn't get in the car to go home. She kept trying to get him in the car by saying things like "lets go home" but he refused. This is an action that a "normal" child would have completed without hesitation but her son wouldn't. After I heard her story I was wondering what solutions or comments she could have made to help resolve this issue before it got worse.

http://www.guidancefacilitators.com/odd2.html

This is the website that I have found that listed some solutions or strategies to avoid conflict. The reason why this was so interesting to me was because if I had a child in my classroom who had ODD it would be very difficult to get this child to complete normal tasks throughout the day and I was wondering how you avoid conflict with your words. This article had mentioned to use the words "regardless" and "nevertheless" repetitively and calm because it will de-escalate the situation. This made me wonder that if my family member had said these words to her son if that would have calmed the situation down and if this is the only thing they have found to work. I will have to look more into this.

What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

Hi everyone! I have decided to explore Oppositional Defiant Disorder and how it effects families or other caregivers such as teachers. I chose to explore this disorder because there is someone in my family who has Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I just recently found this information out and I wanted to look more into it. When I heard about Oppositional Defiant Disorder I began wondering what this included. In my mind 'Oppositional' meant the opposite. 'Defiant' meant completing inappropriate actions and then 'Disorder' meant that it doesn't just happen once. I also had some questions that popped into my head. These included:

• What is ODD?
• What are the symptoms?
• Does ODD last forever or will it eventually disappear?

I wanted to check to see if my thinking was right and to see if I could answer some of my questions, therefore I used the information my family member had gave me and went to use the resources on the internet. Below is a link that I found about Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

http://www.aacap.org/cs/ODD.ResourceCenter

This website was very helpful to me. It gave me more information about Oppositional Defiant Disorder or ODD. It includes frequently asked questions as well that had answered some of my questions that I had asked myself. It also provides information to parents or families by giving them ideas and places to go for help as well as books and other resources that could be used. I did notice that it says this website was last updated in 2009 which makes me wonder if there is new information out since then. I will have to continue my search to find out more information about Oppositional Defiant Disorder and how it effects families.