The Teacher's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Supporting and Engaging Students with Challenging or Disruptive Behaviour in the Classroom

Are you looking for effective strategies for cooperating with your 'difficult' students? Are you struggling to find motivational tools for students that appear to be angry, rude, cruel, erratic, or stubborn?

This book is an essential guide for school staff supporting students with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Written by the author of The Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Your Questions Answered, this book debunks myths about ODD by providing psychiatric context, strength-based approaches and exploring the disorder through a holistic lens.

Supporting teachers in building and maintaining healthy relationships with ODD students, the book equips educators with the skillset to understand their students, identify and avoid common obstacles and prepare their students to thrive in and outside of the classroom. Packed with easy-to-use handouts, questionnaires and printable exercises, this guide is perfect for teacher training and group activities.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Changing the way you see Oppositional Defiant Disorder

1. Oppositional Defiant Disorder: the view from the outside
2. Struggles linked with Oppositional Defiant Disorder Chapter
3. Cultural competence, misunderstandings and bias
4. Managing Your Frustrations and Expectations

Part II Changing the way the student sees you

5. Control and Autonomy
6. Leadership without coercion
7. Building trust and connection
8. Responding to students in distress

PART III Understanding your students goals and needs

9. Looking for the WHY of behaviour

10. Common Classroom Struggles: Invisible Disabilities

11. Skills that improve cooperation in the classroom

12. Preparing to write an Individualized Behaviour Plan

PART IV: Worksheets