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Behavior Disorders - Herb Marlow
Behavior Disorders
By Herb Marlow, Ph.D.
Copyright 2011 by Herb Marlow
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Behavior Disorders
A Guide for Teachers & Parents
A practical guide for teachers and parents of children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
Contents
INTRODUCTION
SECTION ONE: DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
SECTION TWO: Negative Parenting Styles and Their Positive Opposites
Chapter One: Withdrawal
Chapter Two: Avoidance
Chapter Three: Challenging
Chapter Four: Conflict/Confronting
Chapter Five: Martyring
Chapter Six: Blaming
SECTION THREE: Help for Teachers of Children and Teenagers Diagnosed With ODD
SECTION FOUR: DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Conduct Disorder (CD)
SECTION FIVE: Conduct Disorder Cooperation Therapy
SECTION SIX: In Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTERNET WEB PAGES FOR ODD AND CD INFORMATION AND ORGANIZATIONS
PRESCRIPTION DRUG SUPPLEMENT
NUTRITIONAL NOTES
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
This book is not written as a professional journal—though counseling professionals will certainly appreciate the practical application of therapy techniques found in its pages. It is what it proclaims to be: A guidebook for teachers and parents who deal with children on an everyday basis who have problems with Behavior Disorders; specifically, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder.
Rather than attempt to give long, professional dissertations on ODD and Conduct Disorder, this book will address symptoms and solutions, ideas and results, situations and practical applications.
INTRODUCTION
Teachers and parents today constantly feel the effects of children with behavior and conduct disorders. The behavior and conduct problems discussed in this book are listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1994) under the titles: OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER and CONDUCT DISORDER. Though these two disorders have overlapping symptoms, they will be considered as separate problems. Oppositional Defiant Disorder is the most common problem teachers and parents are confronted with on a regular basis.
Working together, teachers and parents try to solve the problems found in children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder, but often guidelines and practical, workable procedures are not available to help them. This book is written as a guidebook for teachers and parents to help them help the children who are so important to all of us.
Our society contributes to the problems that our children display. As a people, we have become very selfish and hedonistic. In other words, as a society, we are out of control! Perhaps this work will help us—and our children—regain the behavioral control necessary to make all of our lives more peaceful and rewarding.
SECTION ONE
DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Since the late 1950s, parents have been harangued and confused by child-rearing gurus
who have given many different and conflicting views of how to raise well-adjusted children. Today, our society suffers from a breakdown in discipline and respect that can be traced to those often-undisciplined writers and speakers, and their disciples.
Of course, not all behavior problems can be laid at the feet of parents who are confused about how to discipline their children. Because in our present culture the structure of accepted behavior norms has been overturned, even children raised in an atmosphere of discipline and respect will often rebel and display all of the negative behavior traits that their undisciplined peers do. The difference is, children raised in a disciplined home will know when they are doing a wrong thing, and they will expect punishment for their behavior.
A short historical view of the American social revolution of the 1960s points to where the breakdown in family values began. In most revolutions, the revolutionaries have a developed program with which they want to replace the existing or established one. Not so with our social revolution. While the revolutionaries wanted to overturn the established rules of individual, family and social behavior, they had no structure in mind to use as a model for the new
way. The result was chaos—a chaos that we are only now beginning to overcome. Children born during the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s, and on into the twenty-first century have been, and will continue to be, exposed to the uncertainties about child care and discipline found in their parents.
Often, minor behavior problems in a very young child that are not addressed and/or corrected become major ones as he grows older. When the child reaches the teen years, those major problems can become catastrophic. As can be seen by the DSM-IV excerpts, Oppositional Defiant Disorder may often be the precursor to Conduct Disorder in mid to late teen years, and Conduct Disorder is often the gateway to Antisocial Personality Disorder in adulthood. Thus, it is very important that behavior problems in a young child be corrected at an early age.
While the DSM-IV does not list specific criteria for behavior disorder (only 312.9: Disruptive Behavior Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
is listed, with no real diagnostic criteria), usually the diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (313.81) is used by professionals to design treatment plans for children with negative behavior disorders of a lesser degree of violence than Conduct Disorder. The following is an excerpt lifted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association.
Please forgive the professional jargon. I am lifting this section directly from the DSM-IV and have not made any changes, except where noted. For emphasis, I have boldfaced certain portions of the excerpt.
313.81 Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Diagnostic Features
The essential feature of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and