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  • Defiant Children

  • When Your Kid Isn’t Just Difficult
  • By: Brittany Forrester
  • Narrated by: Hadi Hajjar
  • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Brittany Forrester
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Summary

Learning to communicate and manage frustration is part of growing up. But some children don’t master those skills. If their frequent angry outbursts and aggressive behaviors interfere with family life, making friends, or school performance, they may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), which, by some estimates, affects up to 16 percent of school-age children. Though no statistics are available for younger children, experts say that most children with ODD show signs of the disorder in the preschool years.

Oppositional defiant disorder describes a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and/or spitefulness that lasts at least six months, is present in multiple settings, and occurs almost daily in children younger than five, and at least once a week in older children. (By six or seven years old, most children have learned to express anger in productive, socially acceptable ways.)

Examples of anger and irritable mood include frequent loss of temper and being easily annoyed or resentful. Argumentative and defiant behavior includes refusing to obey rules, continually challenging authority, being deliberately annoying to others, and/or blaming others for mistakes or bad behavior.

Many children with ODD have other mental health challenges, such as anxiety, mood disorders, and language and learning disorders. Trauma, parenting, styles, and other environmental issues may also contribute.

As with many mental health conditions, ODD occurs on a continuum. Children with mild ODD may show symptoms only at home or only at school. Moderate ODD may be the diagnosis when a child’s ODD behaviors happen in two settings. ODD is classified as severe when the acting out is seen in three or more settings.

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Had to turn it off after half an hour

It may get more helpful but after half an hour of mother bashing I turned it off. It repeatedly blamed mother’s/maternal influence as though father’s and wider family members take no part in raising or influencing children.

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