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Let's Talk About Oppositional Defiant Disorder

What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) is a psychiatric disorder that is very difficult to understand. Behaviors usually consist of aggressiveness and a willingness to irritate others. Patterns of negativity, defiance and hostility also may be present. Parenting teens with ODD is a challenge because these children often loose their tempers easily and argue with their parents. ODD teens have difficulty taking responsibility for their own actions and usually place blame on others around them. In teens with ODD there is an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with their social, academic or employment activities.

Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Frequent temper tantrums
Excessive arguing with adults
Active defiance and refusal to comply with adult requests and rules
Deliberate attempts to annoy or upset people
Often spiteful or vindictive
Blaming others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
Often touchy or easily annoyed by others
Frequent anger and resentment
Mean and hateful talking when upset

How Top Flight Academy Can Help
Students at Top Flight Academy have a tremendous advantage - while receiving intensive individual and group therapy students are immersed in positive peer culture where they learn the social skills training to increase flexibility and tolerance with their peers. Students also learn how to assist others in their behaviors, which in turn helps themselves. Students at Top Flight Academy learn to improve frustrations tolerance with their peers and decrease their negativity by focusing on positive solutions. Children need understanding and support in addition to training that improves communications. Parenting a teen with ODD is truly one of the most difficult tasks a parent can face. Parents are part of a treatment team at Top Flight Academy that will work together through family therapy and parenting seminars.