You Can’t Make Me! Effective Strategies and Interventions for Students With Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Drawing from her 40 years of experience working with students with behavioral disorders, Beverley Johns explains what may cause ODD-related behaviors and describes approaches that may actually escalate students’ behaviors.
Educators will gain confidence addressing students’ needs and their significant behavioral/emotional challenges by learning 20 real-life strategies to improve rapport with students plus techniques to:
- Identify their own biases and prevent those biases from impacting relationships with students
- Improve students’ social skills using 11 activities
- Teach students emotional regulation skills, including 14 calming strategies to implement when students can’t self-regulate
- Implement positive behavioral interventions that will reduce ODD-related behaviors
- React to emergency situations arising from a student’s behavior
- And more
Includes graphics, charts, and exercises to help implement concepts learned in the school setting.