If your loved one suddenly begins to display
odd behavior including mumbling to themselves, sucking on an unusual object or body part, or rocking in place.
Not exact matches
Disorganized schizophrenia symptoms may
include: Problems with thinking and expressing ideas clearly Childlike
behavior Showing little emotion Catatonic schizophrenia symptoms may
include: Lack of activity Muscles and posture may be rigid Grimaces or other
odd expressions on the face Does not respond much to other people Undifferentiated schizophrenia symptoms may
include symptoms of more than one other type of schizophrenia.
Symptoms of
ODD in contrast to normal child
behaviors may
include:
Other symptoms
include changes in your cats temperament,
odd behavior, depression, seizures, circling
behavior, seizures, head pressing, head tilt, uncoordinated movements (ataxia) and dementia.
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include behavioral topics such as repetitive habits like excessive chewing and furniture scratching,
odd behavior like «phantom food burying,» and every day concerns such as exercise and sleep routines.
There was also a variety of glitches I experienced
including having to restart an early mission, Shay getting blue hair, freezing up for a few seconds, getting stuck in scenery and plenty of
odd AI
behavior.
An
odd collection of groups and individuals,
including former Sierra Club «CAFE» (car fuel - economy) lobbyist Dan Becker («Even as gas prices have doubled and trebled over the past several years, we see little change in driving
behavior,» Becker told the New York Times in October, 2006.)
Their contradictory
behaviors upon reunion
include gazing away while being held,
odd postures, and dazed facial expressions.
I have 17 years of clinical experience helping children and teens with a variety of issues
including Autism Spectrum Disorder (All ages),
ODD, learning disabilities, anxiety disorder, depression,
behavior problems, parenting challenges, communication skills and helping the families cope with these issues.
My clinical experience
includes working with children, adolescents and their families that have experienced ADHD, bipolar disorder, adjustment disorder,
ODD, OCD, PTSD, depression, anxiety, conversion disorder, reactive attachment disorder, autism spectrum, substance use disorder, sexual
behavior concerns and victims of sexual abuse.
Read on to learn more about
ODD and how to turn around problem
behavior with treatment, which typically
includes therapy — both individual and family — and sometimes medication.
Treatment of
ODD may
include: Parent Management Training Programs to help parents and others manage the child's
behavior.
The four areas of functioning
include Affect (chronic / major depression, helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, anger, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, emptiness), Cognition (
odd thinking, unusual perceptions, nondelusional paranoia, quasipsychosis), Impulse action patterns (substance abuse / dependence, sexual deviance, manipulative suicide gestures, other impulsive
behaviors), and Interpersonal relationships (intolerance of aloneness, abandonment, engulfment, annihilation fears, counterdependency, stormy relationships, manipulativeness, dependency, devaluation, masochism / sadism, demandingness, entitlement).
I specialize in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for a variety of issues
including: generalized anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, phobias, trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, attention - deficit / hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (
ODD),
Behavior problems, and general adjustment issues.
For adolescents, psycho - educational programs,
including cognitive interventions and skills training, vocational training, and academic preparations appear to reduce the disruptive
behaviors usually associated with
ODD.
To be
included, the child had to measure in the clinical range on Eyberg Child
Behavior Inventory (ECBI), meet criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (
ODD) according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - IV) and have displayed disruptive
behaviors for 6 months.
Items assessing the nature and severity of disruptive
behavior disorder symptoms using criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — Fourth Edition (DSM - IV),
included CD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (
ODD) and were obtained primarily from the Child Symptom Inventory - 4 (CSI - 4, Gadow and Sprafkin 1994).
Counseling for
ODD should
include both the patient and his or her family members, and it should emphasize strategies that the family can use to cope with defiant
behaviors.
In researching
ODD here is what I learned: The term disorder is a misnomer because it is not a disorder but instead a learned
behavior, or likely a combination of a child's home environment and inherited factors
including:
Behavior that looks like
ODD can stem from a variety of factors,
including a history of abuse or trauma, anxiety, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or medical conditions.
Examples of
ODD include any time a child has a pattern of being angry and irritable, argumentative or defiant along with displays of vindictive
behavior.
In addition, 8 criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (
ODD) and 12 criteria for conduct disorder (CD) are
included, along with 7 criteria from the Pediatric
Behavior Scale (Lindgren & Koeppl, 1987) that screen for anxiety and depression.
The four areas of functioning
include Affect (chronic / major depression, helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, anger, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, emptiness), Cognition (
odd thinking, unusual perceptions, non-delusional paranoia, quasi-psychosis), Impulse action patterns (substance abuse / dependence, sexual deviance, manipulative suicide gestures, other impulsive
behaviors), and Interpersonal relationships (intolerance of aloneness, abandonment, engulfment, annihilation fears, counter-dependency, stormy relationships, manipulative behaviours, dependency, devaluation, masochism / sadism, demandingness, entitlement).
Treatment of
ODD may
include: Parent Training Programs to help manage the child's
behavior, Individual Psychotherapy to develop more effective anger management, Family Psychotherapy to improve communication, Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy to assist problem solving and decrease negativity, and Social Skills Training to increase flexibility and improve frustration tolerance with peers.
However, most of this research has not
included measures of disorders that appear in childhood [e.g., attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or oppositional defiant disorder (
ODD)-RSB-, nor has it considered the full range of possibilities for the latent structure of externalizing
behaviors, particularly factor mixture models, which allow for a latent factor to have both continuous and categorical dimensions.