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When Children Act Out | Dealing with Challenging Behaviors (Feat. Tracy Schreifels)

2018

Learn how to deal with a child who acts out during transitions. We use a role play example to clearly demonstrate interventions that can help manage acting out behaviors.

07:39 min

Resources for Parents of Kids with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

What to Do After an ODD Diagnosis

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Terri Mauro
2020
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children (Sixth Edition)

What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse.

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Ross W. Greene
2025
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10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child’s Difficult Behavior (Second Edition)

Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior-including tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity-becomes chronic, it causes big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, family and child psychologist Dr.

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Jeffrey Bernstein
2025
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The Defiant Child: A Parent’s Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

A much-needed tool that parents of children with O.D.D. can use to identify the source of this turmoil and take back parental control. Dr. Douglas Riley teaches parents how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify the behavior of their oppositional child.

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Douglas A. Riley
1997
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Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Two-Part Treatment Plan to Help Parents and Kids Work Together

Parenting a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is difficult, stressful, and often overwhelming. Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder is the first child psychology book that sets you up for success by recognizing that taking care of your child starts with taking care of yourself.

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Gina Atencio-MacLean
2025
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Self-Soothing Techniques for Kids

All kids feel anxious or stressed sometimes, like when they’re getting ready for a big test. But kids who learn and think differently may feel stress more often or more intensely. Self-soothing techniques can help them relax and regain their sense of control.

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Kate Kelly
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Mayo Clinic Guide to Raising a Healthy Child

Between the terrible twos and the teenage years, your child will undergo many transformative and, at times, challenging phases.

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Dr. Angela C. Mattke
2019
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Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life.

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Elijah C. Nealy
2025
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Chicken Little, the Sky Isn’t Falling: Raising Resilient Adolescents in the New Age of Anxiety

This is a comprehensive guide for parents who want to raise emotionally healthy, resilient adolescents in a time of great stress when anxiety and mental health disorders are epidemic. In these times of great stress for our kids, resilience is not a given.

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Erica Komisar
2021
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The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.

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Jessica Minahan, Nancy Rappaport
2012
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