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Effective
treatment of ODD would need to include a plan to treat all conditions that
may be present.
Treatments may include:
Family
Coaching
Parent
Training
Anger management
Social
Skills Training
Medication,
if necessary
Manageing
techniques for ODD
Tips for coping with some of the symptoms of ODD:
Create
an environment where child will not fail.
Always
build on the positive, and minimise the negative
Discipline
by using consequences and be consistent. Consistency is very important
as this shows the child that you are not going to give in to his or her
demands
Make consequences
as immediate as possible. For example, your child does not do a task on
Sunday and you say that he is grounded on Tuesday; this is to long between
the unwanted act and the grounding.
Implement
the consequence as soon as the unwanted action takes place.
Contact
a coach to help you deal with your ODD child a coach will support you
and help you find a way of coping and overcoming the difficulties that
are occurring
Take time for yourself, this is very important you need to have a few
hours away from the home. A time that you take for you to do what you
want to do.
Tips for ODD children /students
Helpful techniques for children & students
trying to cope with their ODD
To help
keep your feelings and emotions under control. Try using a daily diary
to keep yourself organised. This will help you stop the feelings of being
inadequate around forgetting things.
Make your
room your peaceful place. You can use this room to go and calm down when
you are feeling angry and you need to take yourself away from a situation.
Play music that is calming, listen to your breathing, with each deep breath
you take you will feel yourself becoming calmer. Stay in your room until
you feel that are more able to deal with what ever had made you feel angry.
Don't skip
coaching sessions, talk to your coach about what is going on in your life.
A coach will help you to recognise what your anxieties are and together
you will find ways of dealing with that anxiety.
Writing
your feelings down will help you to stop acting on them.
Keep reminding
yourself what you want to accomplish today.
As
a coach I can help you to start and make those changes
Contact
Christine McLanachan ECONNF,
EFT-CC
Overcome adversity to succeed
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