Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children & Adolescents: Non-Medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors – Scott D. Walls

Course Description

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children & Adolescents: Non-Medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors – Scott D. Walls

• Strategies for ODD, ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders
• Strategies for tantrums, noncompliance, bullying and other challenging behaviors
• Take away specific, strategy-driven techniques
• Improve treatment with better assessment of the look-alike disorders
• Improve the BIG TEN behaviors
• Positive alternatives for your most challenging kids

Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Watch this recording and learn valuable non-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
• Lack of follow through
• Not following directions

You could gain strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Scott Walls has worked with some of the most challenging kids in both clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action oriented handouts, you will discover solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

1. Utilize clinical strategies to reduce the frequency, duration and severity of behavioral episodes that challenge therapists, educators, professionals and parents.
2. Implement both proactive and reactive strategies for oppositional, defiant and disruptive behavior in children and youth.
3. Discriminate between the clinical presentation of behavioral episodes & psychiatric symptoms to inform treatment.
4. Communicate how a skilled observation of behavior informs your treatment approach.
5. Develop clinical skills for establishing a therapeutic rapport to overcome treatment resistance in children and adolescents.
6. Effectively develop a behavior intervention plan and safety plan across all settings including home and school.

Behaviors that Make Us Crazy

• Tantrums
• Running out/away
• Noncompliance
• Nagging
• Refusing to work/help
• Yelling/screaming
• Bullying
• Panic/anxiety reactions
• Lack of follow through
• Not following directions

Disorders

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

Assessment

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

• Mental Health Disorder or Behavior Problem
  • The power of skilled observations
  • The interview
  • Comparison to the group
  • The  FBA-Incredibly  powerful assessment tool
  • The art of choosing a diagnosis (if you have to at all!)

Treatment Strategies Part I

• Proactive
  • Behavior plans
  • Motivational incentives
  • Set the stage for success
  • Remember the initial goal
  • Appropriately address the functions of the behavior

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

Treatment Strategies Part II

• Specific Strategies for the Following Behavioral Challenges:
  • Tantrums
  • Running out/away
  • Noncompliance
  • Nagging
  • Refusing to work/help
  • Yelling/screaming
  • Bullying
  • Panic/anxiety reactions
  • Lack of follow through
  • Not following directions

Treatment Strategies Part III

• Specific Strategies for the Following Disorders:
  • ODD
  • ADHD
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders

Treatment Strategies Part IV

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