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Title: "No! I won't!" Understanding and responding to student defiance.(Report)
Author: Andrea Smith
Publication: Childhood Education (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 83Issue: 3Page: 151(7)

Article Type: Report

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Abstract:Primary care physicians who treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may expect to encounter oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in about half of patients with ADHD. Up to 20% of patients with ADHD may meet criteria for conduct disorder (CD), and a higher percentage will exhibit aggressiveness or other symptoms of CD without meeting full diagnostic criteria. Primary care physicians self-report more competence in managing ADHD alone than when it is accompanied by comorbid ODD or CD, even though the diagnostic and treatment considerations are similar. The empirical literature on normal and antisocial behavioral development provides insight into understanding how patients with comorbid disruptive behavior may differ from those with uncomplicated ADHD. Primary care physicians who are competent to diagnosis and treat ADHD may develop similar competence in managing patients with ADHD plus oppositional and/or aggressive behavior and, if allied with colleagues who provide specialized psychosocial treatment, may fill an important role in the overall management of complex cases. ... Read more

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A book on Attachment Disorder (AD) that explains what AD is, and how it can be successfully treated through intensive attachment therapy. ... Read more

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Abusive "Therapy"
Oh god, the things the author says in this book are so awful!Here are just a few that send chills down my back:

"Children with...[Attachment Disorder] really hate being touched...they commonly complain constantly about various aches and pains, things that itch, and parts of themselves that they need to move whenever they're being held. The therapist may sometimes need to briefly cover a child's mouth with a cupped hand...in order to cut off the child's constant complaints that are preventing therapy from being able to progress..." page 113

"Whenever a therapist lies on top of a child, with the child face up, and with the therapist facing the child, this is known as compression. This technique is also used to help a child become enraged, to help to re-enact the need cycle, and to help a child to access and work through memories of past traumas..." pages 83-84

"Compression can be very useful in the process of helping children to work through and release trapped feelings of terror, as the therapist can put a small amount of weight on children until terror is triggered, then takes that weight off, and helps children to calm back down. Then slightly more weight can be put on to again trigger terror ... This process can take several hours, and may even take several days..." page 98

"It usually isn't necessary to put more than 50 pounds of weight on the child ... Occasionally more weight may need to be briefly put on a child if the issues the child is working on cause him to become assaultive, and he needs to be physically restrained..." page 101

"If children appear to be particularly frightened about sexual abuse while in my lap, I usually ask them to look into my eyes, and decide whether or not I'm a person who hurts children, or who does sex things to children." page 94

"Generally, children who won't contract to participate in holding or attachment therapy aren't family material, and do much better in a group home or residential treatment facility anyway." page 87

"Remember, a key principle to successfully parent a child with AD is that being successful doesn't mean that the child is getting better, or is changing. It simply means that the parents are having more fun being this child's parents." page 118

Interesting but be cautious
This is an interesting 202-page handbook for those treating or living with attachment disorder children. Randolph breaks the volume into two six-chapter parts, the first on understanding and living with attachment disorder children, the second on research results into the issue. Unfortunately, some of the statements of "fact" in this book seem highly controversial, at best.

Chapter one covers "Attachment Theory and Attachment Disruptions," reviewing the history of the disorder's preliminary discovery in the 13th Century by King Gustav of Sweden, its recognition by British psychoanalyst John Bowlby in a seminal 1944 study and further research into the topic in the 1960s by Mary Ainsworth and others with whom she later collaborated.

The later studies identified the differences in behavioral and psychological health in "securely attached children" from "insecurely attached children." In the 1970s researchers began to consider the effects of maltreatment on attachment styles. These found that children raised in orphanages had more severe problems than those raised in foster care.

In the second essay, Randolph covers "The Impact of Severe Traumatization on Infant Monkeys and Human Children." In 1958, Harry Harlow studied whether infant monkeys attached to their mothers because they provide food, and surprisingly found that the comfort of the infants was more important to them than eating. This was determined by the use of two surrogate mother figures-a wire monkey that provided food and a cloth monkey for comfort. Harlow found that the infants clung to the cloth "mothers," in many cases, to the point of starvation.

Randolph also covers the effects of severe neglect and deprivation on human children, as evidenced by case studies of children from Romanian orphanages, where infants experience no human contact at all except when their diapers are changed three to four times a day.

In monkeys, it was found that early deprivation is extremely difficult to treat, with few if any therapies successfully rehabilitating infants to the point where they are willing and able to establish close attachments to others. While intelligence seems unaffected, most are unable to fully utilize their intelligence to solve problems with which they are presented.

Bruce Perry and his collaborators Bessel van der Kolk and Schwartz found that traumatization has profound neurological, psychological, physiological, developmental, ethical and interpersonal effects on children. Children were more likely to have these effects if the source of their trauma was "man-made" than the result of natural disasters. Positron emission tomography scanning was used to measurethe brain impulses experienced by traumatized and normal children. These found that traumatized children store all their traumatic memories on the right side of the brain, all their positive memories on the left side and are unable to efficiently and effectively coordinate actions that require the use of both brain hemispheres.

Severely traumatized children are also "chronically hyperaroused."

Up to this point, the book is useful and informative. But I begin to have doubts when Randolph notes that, according to Dr. van der Kolk found, children must be allowed to experience intense feelings during therapy, so as to be able to work through the traumatic memories and to be able to provide a different outcome than the original one. According to Randolph, he concludes that "therapists who feel incapable of pushing children to intensify their feelings...so that trauma can be resolved shouldn't work with [traumatized] children, as they will only end up re-traumatizing these children...."

I am unsure if this accurately represents Dr. van der Kolk's findings.

But, I question Randolph's conclusion, based on her assessments of his work, that "Traumatic memories can only be resolved when children are in a high state of high automatic arousal...."

These Attachment Therapy (AT) methods are discussed in chapter 5 of the book. The list Randolph provides list may be a complete roster of attachment treatments available today. But some of them sound like complete quackery.

As Jean Mercer notes in a 2002 online article, "Attachment Therapy: A Treatment without Empirical Support," although death and injury have resulted from AT, it nevertheless has the support of some state agencies in the U.S. While AT practitioners claim that research "supports the effectiveness of their techniques," however, Mercer examined the evidence based on the research design and statistical analysis, and concluded "that AT remains without empirical validation."

Another reason for caution is that the book may be a publication of the Attachment Treatment and Training Institute in Evergreen, Colorado, whose core theories and practices are reportedly at odds with "accepted principles of psychological practice."

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Not for the lay person
This book offered some information I wanted, but it was not written for the lay person.

The best of 5 books I've read about defiant teens
Yes, I've read 5 books cover to cover. I know this book was written for professional counselors, but as a parent who has spent many hours in counselors offices, this book is invaluable. If you're paying attention, when reading this book, you can recognise whether your counselor is helping you, or wasting your time. When parents are honestly being emotionally abused, they need to be told, and supported in their efforts to take "decisive and responsible action to help their children" as Dr. Price says in his book. If I'd had this book a year ago, I would not have wasted time on a psychiatrist who only served as an abusive teen's good buddy. If you are a parent, another good book on this subject is "The Defiant Child" by Dr. Douglas Riley. Riley's book spends some time on younger children, but if your child is 14, it's not too late to put his book to good use. For parents of teenagers, it is really too late for you to buy "The Explosive Child," by Ross W. Greene. Greene's book is great for parents of younger children. I do recommend Gregory Bodenhamer's book "Parent in Control." but to make his ideas work, parents really have to have some backbone and the backing of others and the community. Trouble is that many of us have the problems we have with our children because we had no backbone in the first place, or our authority has been undermined for too long. We need assistance and support, not blame in order to turn things around for our children. I recommend "Power and Compassion" above all five books I've read for defiant children.

IMMENSELY USEFUL, BRIDGES USUAL DISPUTES
The most useful book I've found in 25 years' work with these families, and in families with milder aggression. Kids really get better. Many illustrations help adults understand why they quarrel so much over thesekids, and give them real hope and specific tools to guide them wisely.Fortherapists, parents, and teachers caught in arguments about "toughlove/accountability" vs "understanding the cause"strategies, this is a necessary guide about when and how to utilize bothstrategies, where they are likely to make mistakes. ... Read more

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A straightfoward, solution-oriented guide
Helping Schoolchildren Cope with Anger: A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention by Jim Larson (Professor of Psychology and Director of the School Psychology Program, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater) and John Lochman (Professor and Saxon Chairholder in clinical Psychology, University of Alabama, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center) is a straightfoward, solution-oriented guide to dealing with chronic aggression in young students, particularly those ranging in age from 8 to 12 years. This invaluable, accessible work is based upon the latest studies and findings on childhood aggression, and presents the principles behind the authors' own approaches to teaching young folks how to cope with anger, along with session-by-session guidelines, and a great deal more, Helping Schoolchildren Cope with Anger is a first-rate supplement to professional help for disturbed children and highly recommended for professional and academic reference collections in the field of anger management studies. ... Read more

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This book worked with my child
This clearly written book was easy to understand. The little girl isn't as naughty as mine, but my child was able to understand what to do and why.The parent's guide should be purchased with it because it shows what kinds of rewards you can give your child and how to make it work.I thought it did just what it was supposed to do.

Thumbs down
I purchased this book for my 3 year old and don't even think I'll show it to her.I was very disappointed with the book.I can't believe the hefty price tag too.I do not recommend this book. ... Read more