Scott D. Walls – Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children & Adolescents

Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges.

Scott D. Walls – Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children & Adolescents

• Strategies to treat ODD, ADHD and anxiety.
• Strategies to deal with tantrums, bullying, and noncompliance.
• Remove specific strategies-driven techniques
• Better assessment and treatment of the look will improve your chances of success.-alike disorders
• Enhance the BIG TEN behaviours
• Positive options for your most difficult kids

Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Learn valuable non-clinical information by watching this video.-medication strategies for your clients’ most challenging behaviors including:

• Tantrums
• Running out/away
• Noncompliance
• Nagging
• Refusing to Work/Help
• Yelling/screaming
• Bullying
• Panic/anxiety reactions
• Failure to follow up
• Do not follow directions

Strategies for controlling out-of-control behaviors, techniques for emotional regulation, and long-term treatment strategies can be learned to help children at school and home. Scott Walls He has worked with some the most difficult children in both school and clinical settings. You will learn how to help your most difficult children through case studies and action-oriented handouts.

1. Use clinical strategies to decrease the severity, duration, and frequency of behavioral episodes that are challenging therapists, educators and parents.
2. For youth and children who display disruptive, defiant or oppositional behavior, both proactive strategies and reactive strategies can be used.
3. Discriminate between the clinical presentation of behavioral episodes & psychiatric symptoms to inform treatment.
4. Communicate how your skilled observation of behavior influences your treatment approach.
5. Learn clinical skills to establish a therapeutic relationship with children and adolescents in order to overcome resistance.
6. Develop a behavior intervention and safety plan for all settings.

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We are made crazy by these behaviors

• Tantrums
• Running out/away
• Non-compliance
• Nagging
• Refusing to Work/Help
• Yelling/screaming
• Bullying
• Panic/anxiety reactions
• Failure to follow up
• Do not follow directions

Disorders

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• ADHD
• Mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders

Assessment

• Behavior: The Functions
  • Fear-based (Fight, Flight or Freeze)
  • Escape
  • Attention
  • Sensory
  • Pain
  • Control

• Mental Health Disorders or Problems with Behavior
  • The power and utility of skilled observations
  • The interview
  • Comparison with the group
  • The FBA-Incredibly powerful assessment tool
  • The art of choosing a diagnosis, if necessary!

Part I: Treatment Strategies

• Be proactive
  • Plans of behavior
  • Motivational incentives
  • Set the stage to success
  • Keep in mind the original goal
  • The behavior’s functions should be addressed in a way that is appropriate.

• Reactive
  • P.C.P.
  • Corrective actions
  • It’s like playing chess in a tornado

Part II of Treatment Strategies

• Here are some strategies to address the following behavioral challenges:
  • Tantrums
  • Running out/away
  • Noncompliance
  • Nagging
  • Refusing to Work/Help
  • Yelling/screaming
  • Bullying
  • Panic/anxiety reactions
  • Failure to follow up
  • Do not follow directions

Third Part: Treatment Strategies

• These are specific strategies for the following disorders:
  • ODD
  • ADHD
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders

Part IV: Treatment Strategies

• Special Populations & Circumstances
  • Asperger’s Disorder
  • Divorce, separation
  • Neglect and abuse
  • Parent misbehavior
  • Foster care