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| Subject: The system is destroying the most independent young minds: oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:50 pm | |
| Most parents have times when their defiant, argumentative child seems like an antagonistic alien. Hostile, boundary-pushing behaviour is usually part of normal childhood development.
However, when the behaviour isn’t transient, when it’s intense and relentless, when it disrupts the family and the classroom and causes significant distress, it may be a psychological condition called oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).
“A significant proportion of children with ODD can go on to have further problems,” says clinical psychologist Dr Rachael Murrihy, a research leader in the Health Psychology Unit at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
“Children can stop meeting developmental milestones, they get socially rejected and isolated at school, they put a lot of strain on the classroom environment and the learning of others and they are constantly in trouble.”
http://www.smh.com.au/brand-discover/scroll/brink/4/behaviour_problems/ |
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