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Suggest Therapy For Oppositional Defiant Disorder

I know a child who i believe has (ODD) Oppositional Defiant Disorder he likes to argue, physically hurt people, Blame other people, physically hurt himself when he is mad, break things through madness, Purposly refuse to listen. Could this be ODD or something else?
posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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Hello,
This is more like conduct disorder. The treatment would be antipsychotic drugs in low dose as the behavioral disturbance is severe at present.
But the appropriate treatment is behaviour therapy and parental training to handle such child. meet a nearest child psychologist for this. I may tell you that the management is very difficult but possible.
Thanks.
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Suggest Therapy For Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Hello, This is more like conduct disorder. The treatment would be antipsychotic drugs in low dose as the behavioral disturbance is severe at present. But the appropriate treatment is behaviour therapy and parental training to handle such child. meet a nearest child psychologist for this. I may tell you that the management is very difficult but possible. Thanks.