Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Changing the way you see Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Chapter 1: Oppositional Defiant Disorder: the view from the outside
Chapter 2: Struggles linked with Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Chapter 3: Cultural competence, misunderstandings and bias
Chapter 4: Managing Your Frustrations and Expectations
Part II Changing the way the student sees you
Chapter 5: Control and Autonomy
Chapter 6 Leadership without coercion
Chapter 7: Building trust and connection
Chapter 8: Responding to students in distress
PART III Understanding your students' goals and needs
Chapter 9: Looking for the WHY of behaviour
Chapter 10: Common Classroom Struggles: Invisible Disabilities
Chapter 11: Skills that improve cooperation in the classroom
Chapter 12: Preparing to write an Individualized Behaviour Plan
PART IV: Worksheets
