What Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is defined as a pattern of ongoing behavior that displays disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior towards persons in positions of authority.

This is a behavior that goes beyond the usual ‘acting out’ that most children will display from day to moment and show patterns of consistently obstinate behavior.

This may be the underlying cause whether a child’s behavior is seem to interfere with a child’s functioning in the community, at school or at home and whether the behavior seems to have been ongoing for as towering as 6 months or more.

The symptoms of that disorder manifest in negative, defiant and hostile behavior such as:

• The child may
  be seem to very angry and frequently has episodes of losing his or her temper. He or she may display a lot of resentment.
• There is a planned seeming attempt to be uncooperative and disobedient in that the child refuses to comply with requests or follow rules.
• The child is combative and repeatedly argumentative.
• The child seems intentionally to be trying to ‘push buttons’ to try and bother parents or other figures of authority.
• Refuses to take responsibility for own mistakes; seeks to blame others
• Takes umbrage easily and is provoked even by mild aggravation.
• The child may even seem intentionally or maliciously vindictive