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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Parenting Troubled Teens
Parent Awareness: Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, with a need for teen help, include frequent temper tantrums, regular defiance of adults or authority figures, arugmentative behavior with adults, intentional attempts to aggravate others, projecting responsibility for misbehavior to others, easily aggravated or angered "at the drop of a hat," vindictiveness, etc.
Signs that you, the parent, are having difficulty coping with a troubled teen's ODD issues include the sensation that you are always "walking on eggshells," fearful of what might trigger the next outburst or argument. Your family life may seem stressed to the breaking point on a regular basis, especially when the struggling teen is present. Whenever you try to "do what's right" in dealing with the ODD teen, setting appropriate boundaries, consequencing, etc., it all seems to turn out wrong.
There are many causes of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. A therapist and a doctor should be your first stop in trying to determine if, in actuality, your troubled teen has ODD, and what course of medical and/or therapeutic action should be taken. However, regardless of the final diagnosis, you should remember that your consistent attempts at good parenting,
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Michael Behning, and the Strong Model Workshops are very powerful in helping parents to approach the problems of defiant teens using techniques not traditionally understood by parents. Parents who seek help for their defiant teens often have a similar response to the suggestion that they need to change themselves: "What?! I'm not the one with the problem!" Behning responds with a suggestion: learn additional skills to elicit the cooperation and respect of your defiant child, which include powerful crisis intervention strategies, appropriate limit-setting, and effective, consistent in-home structure.
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