ODD is common in younger children. ODD is shortened for Oppositional Defiant Disorder. ODD is a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior according to the DSM IV. It is more common in males than females; until both genders hit puberty then they both even out to the same number of diagnoses. In order to be diagnosed they have to have at least six months of four or more of the following; 1) Often loses temper, 2) Often argues with adults, 3)Often actively defines or refuses to comply with adults’ requests or rules, 4) Often deliberately annoys people, 5) Often blames others for his or hers mistakes or misbehavior, 6) Is often touchy or easily annoyed by others, 7) is often angry and resentful, 8) Is often spiteful or vindictive. Most of their symptoms come from biologically, genetics, or environmental influences. Biologically they may have issues with chemicals in their brain. Genetics can be affected if someone in their family had previously had a mental illness. Environmentally everything can affect someone with ODD, especially their home life. Treatment depends on the situation of the child and family, it can either involve therapies or medications. Children with ODD can lose their disability otherwise it can also worsen over time. Oppositional Defiant Disorder all depends on the person and their environment, no one thing can be the same for each person.
Have you ever been called odd or have you called anyone odd? The word odd can use in many different situations. Odd according to Google means different from what is usual or expected. Versus ODD according to the DSM IV is Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior. In this research paper I will be telling...
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... week three, for example, when his mother use too take him home after school he ran down the hall to the vehicle, now he walks beside his mother. With his accomplishments, he has been continuing to attend The Listening Program to help further change his behavior.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a childhood behavior problem by extreme child hood actions. Early intervention and treatment is important, because otherwise the child could have ODD their entire life. It can go away with time otherwise precautions have to be taken by the family. ODD isn’t something that can simply be over looked, because it doesn’t simply affect the child and lifestyle it affects everyone evolved with them. If someone was to notice ODD in a child, don’t try to tame it themselves, the child may have to be taken to the doctor. ODD is simple and is being diagnosed more and more every day.
This is truly remarkable for a child to be able to break away from the influence of society and go with his heart and do what is right, especially when it was considered wrong.
At first, he was following his normal life. He goes to school, hates his Latin teacher, does some homework, and plays
The hallmark of Conduct Disorder (CD) is an obvious and careless apathy for the rules, the rights, the emotions, and the personal territory of others. Aggression, deceitfulness, duress, and power over others are enjoyable to a child with CD. Children with CD pick fights, trespass, lie, cheat, steal, vandalize, display abusive behaviors, and, for older children, perpetrate unwanted sexual advances. The display of signs in younger children can be: ruthless bullying, lying for the purpose of lying, and stealing of useless things.
Based on his behavior raising him through the Virtual Child, it was noted again that he smiles and interacts with nearly everyone and was able to
The next time I tried this intervention, it failed. He did not respond very well to it. When I asked him about his parents, he reluctantly told me that he had a “good” relationship with him. When I asked him a follow up question in hopes to prompt him to speak
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least six months, during which four (or more) of the following are present:
Anti-Social Personality Disorder is a classified personality disorder in which a person, sometimes referred to as a “psychopath”, has a lack of empathy, an increased chance of acting violently towards others, and a complete disregard for authority and punishment. Prevalent features and symptoms include: shallow emotions, irresponsibility, mistrust of others, reckless thrill-seeking, disrespect for the law, prone to lash out with physical violence, harmful impulsiveness, arrogance, manipulative, greedy, lack of kindness or compassion, disrespect for others, and dishonesty (Psychology Today, n.d.). A main factor of this disorder is the inability to process, interpret, and display emotion, even fear. An example is that most criminals with this disorder respond drastically different to their sentencing than normal. They seem relaxed and unable to process it on an emotional level. They are also fully aware of what they are doing, and have no sense of distorted reality, or remorse which classifies them as sane people. They also have neurotransmitter deficiencies in the brain, such as reduced serotonin and dopamine (Freedman & Verdun-Jones, 2010). The overall population of people having this disorder is a small amount, about 3% and higher in prisons and abuse clinics which is around 70%. Also, because of their constant involvement in violence, most people diagnosed with this disorder die by violent means such as suicide and homicide (Internet Mental Health, n.d.).
According to Merriam Webster dictionary an antisocial personality disorder or APD is a personality disorder that is characterized by antisocial behavior exhibiting pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights, feelings, and safety of others starting in childhood or the early teenage years and continuing into adulthood. It has been proven that some violent offenders often commit crimes mainly because of their psychological state of mind. Individuals who suffer from antisocial personality disorders generally are intelligent and charming however, they are severely troubled. This disorder prevents any type of relationship to anyone to be created and often find them in trouble. “this often masks a disturbed personality that makes them incapable of forming enduring relationships with others and continually involves them in such deviant behaviors as violence, risk taking, substance abuse, and impulsivity.” (Siegel, 2009 pg.148).
Antisocial Personality Disorder is a personality disorder that is said that one out of every twenty five people in America have, commonly called sociopaths these people are characterized by disregard for social norms and callous unconcern for the feelings of others. These people fall in the two extremes of American society, either the scoundrels and the unsuccessful, or the powerful and affluent individuals, but they rarely fall into the “hard working” or middle-class section of society.
tells us how he was used to being miss treated by adults. He is often
My topic of choice for this research paper is Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID. This appellation is rather new; therefore, most are more familiar with the disorder's older, less technical name: Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD. When first presented with the task of selecting a topic on which to center this paper, I immediately dismissed Dissociative Identity Disorder (which for the sake of brevity will be referred to as DID for the remainder of this paper) as a viable topic due to the sheer scope of the disorder. However after an exhaustive examination of other prospective topics, I found myself back at my original choice. There are several reasons why I chose DID. The foremost of which is the widespread fascination of this disorder by many different types of people; most of whom otherwise have no interest in psychology or its associated fields. One would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been captivated at one time or another by the extraordinary, all too well known symptoms of this disorder. This fascination… dare I say ‘allure’ to this disorder is exemplified by the myriad of motion pictures that have been produced based on cases, real or fictitious, of DID. Another reason for my choice is what I feel is the insufficiency of effective treatments for DID. Despite what is known about this disorder, (which is relatively a lot) there are only two chief treatments for DID; the first and most prevalent is psychotherapy; also known as ”talk therapy”, the second is medication. The third and final reason for my choice is my own enchantment with DID. I must admit that ever since I read about Sue Tinker, a woman who was diagnosed with over 200 different personalities. In writing this paper I hope to discover more about this disorder and perhaps be able to identify a few areas that I feel might require more research on the part of psychologists specializing in DID.
McFarlane, J., Groff, J., O’Brien, A. & Watson, K. (2003) Behaviors of children who are
Obsessive Compulsive disorder is seen in 2.3% of Americans. It’s more prominent in adults than in children. Antisocial Personality Disorder, also informally known as psychopathy/sociopathy, is a disorder where people elicit manipulative behaviors and lack morals. This includes disregard for rules, violence, superficial charm, promiscuity, a superiority complex, and difficulty forming attachments. This is said to be caused by genetics as well as modeling, or watching other people perform this kind of behavior.
Abnormal behaviour in itself is infrequent, that’s what makes it abnormal. Mental retardation is an example of statistical infrequency, they fall below on intelligence on a bell-curve line; differing from the norm. Violation of societal norms is similar, an action that threatens or makes those anxious to those observing. These two parts are the building blocks on abnormal psychology. You can have both of these, and still be considered to have normal behaviour; a cross dresser walking down the street in Regina is rare (statistical infrequency) and a violation of societal norms (small town Saskatchewan) but causes no harm to themselves or those around them. There is no reason to interject in this person’s life, they are not unhappy (unless internalizing a homosexual need), lead a conventional life and are often
In the past, Sam’s family has not been very supportive. However we know that parental feedback can greatly help assess a strategy that has been trialed with a student. By getting Sam’s parents on board with monitoring his academic and social behavior, the teacher can thoroughly assess Sam’ progress and the effectiveness of the introduced strategies, with their feedback.