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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a PP who recommended family therapy.  Since there is so much parent-blaming going on here, I want to clarify what I meant by that.  What the parent-blamers here need to understand is that kids with ODD (which is a label for a collection of symptoms, not really a dx) are high degree of difficulty kids, whose lagging skills (especially around emotion regulation) make achieving "consistency" in parenting highly challenging, even for the most level-headed parents.  For that reason, an therapeutic approach that is geared toward developing skills for the whole family is the one I'd recommend.

And one more thing: there are many brain-based conditions (anxiety, depression, trauma) that drive with oppositional behavior.  Personally, I think ODD is a useless label--one that in practice prevents people from investigating what is being communicated through the oppositional behavior.[/quote]

I agree with what you wrote, but based on my personal experience, a good therapist would have to consider what behavior in the parent is eliciting opposition or being experienced as intolerable opposition. The parents' own contribution cannot be ignored. [/quote]

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