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Tantrums, Tempers and Tears

Could Your Child Have ODD?

By Tamar Weiss

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The AACAP suggests that if a parents feel something may be wrong with their child's behavior, they can begin by speaking with friends and family, perhaps the school counselor or the child's physician in an effort to gain as much information as possible about finding help. Trying to find a good health care professional can be overwhelming, so the AACAP produced a list of helpful sources of information, including definitions and distinctions between various mental health care professionals.

What Causes ODD?
Although it is difficult to say how a behavioral disorder such as ODD develops -- whether there is a biological predisposition for it or whether it is brought into existence through particular social conditions -- evidence seems to suggest that such behavior is escalated when dealt with in an over-restrictive way. Discovering the root of such a child's behavior is of utmost importance.

upset boy "Find out what they are defying and opposing," says Dr. Aaron Kipnis, a professor of clinical psychology and author of Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Educators Can Help "Bad Boys" Become Good Men. "Oppsitional behavior can be a healthy response to an unhealthy situation, or an unhealthy response to a healthy situation." Dr. Kipnis says it is often better to assume that something about a child's oppositional behavior is right instead of wrong, and the key is to help them express themselves in a more positive way in communicating whatever it is that is bothering them.


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