Continuing from my last post I start by answering the question: If the environment changes does a child still have ODD? When searching I found this website.
http://arivacaboysranch.com/oppositional-defiant-disorder.php
I thought this website was interesting because it says that if the environment changes it can stop triggering the ODD situations or actions of the child even without medication. With being said and being current information from 2012, this would mean that the environment the child is put in greatly effects how often he acts out because of ODD.
After looking through this website and with the knowledge of it I began looking for more websites that I can compare or contrast to it. When searching I found this website.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/jones.html
This website states that when a child with ODD grows older, the characteristics of their behavior change and they often get worse. The child then starts to lie and steal, engage in vandalism, substance abuse, and show aggression towards peers. It then can be led to the diagnosis of CD or Contact Disorder.
I believe that both these websites are interesting as well as the other ones from previous blogs. Up to this point I've seen that environment places a big role in how a child with ODD acts or reacts and if the child has ADHD they are likely to get ODD but if they have ADD they are less likely. My question now is what happens if the family is in poverty and they cant afford therapy or assistance and they can't seem to fix the environment they live in. How would they relieve stress and cope in this situation?
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Causes of ODD
When deciding what to blog on I noticed that the last study I posted was from 2008. I began wondering if new studies and information as been found since then. As I looked for studies to compare to this one I found this website.
This website interested me because it includes possible risk factors that could cause a child to get Oppositional Defiant Disorder. The list of risk factors that the website includes are mostly environmental risks instead of biological or genetic factors. This made me question where they had gotten their information from because my family member who has ODD doesn't meet any of these environmental risk factors but there is a history of ADHD in my family. This website made me wonder if other websites say similar environmental risk factors or if they lean towards biological or genetic factors more. This led me onto a search where I found another website that gave me information about the causes of ODD.
This website gave information on biological, genetic, and environmental factors that could cause a child to have ODD. One thing that I question is that on the first website they made it a point to say that "there's no single factor that causes ODD" were as the second website mentioned that "the exact cause of ODD is not known". It makes me wonder if there are more causes in one of these three areas than the other. It also makes me wonder if the environmental risks are fixed / changed will the child no longer have ODD?
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