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