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Effective Planning, Strategies, and Immediate Techniques: Working with Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Behavioral Populations
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Course Format

Recorded webinar.


Description: This training is designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively work with children and adolescents who exhibit oppositional, defiant, and disruptive behaviors. The training will review diagnostics, including how to differentiate externalizing symptoms that overlap different disorders, including ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Reactive Attachment Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Participants will learn about the brain's function with mood and behavior as well as the function of behaviors and how they are often used to communicate unmet needs. The training will focus on immediate techniques and interventions for use with disruptive behaviors including impulsivity, transitions, executive functioning skills, self-control and more.  By the end of the training, participants will have a better understanding of how to effectively plan and implement strategies to work with this challenging population.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Distinguish the diagnoses of different externalizing disorders with overlapping symptoms.
  2. Describe the brain's function with mood and behavior
  3. Identify the functions of behavior as communication of unmet needs.
  4. Apply practical techniques for excessive movement, impulsivity, effective transitions, and self-control.

Research: 

  • BRIERE, J. (2019). Treating risky and compulsive behavior in trauma survivors. Guilford Publications.
  • MORSHED, N., BABAMIRI, M., ZEMESTANI, M., & ALIPOUR, N. (2019). A comparative study on the effectiveness of individual and group play therapy on symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder among children. Korean journal of family medicine, 40(6), 368.
  • MOTAVALLI POUR, A., BEH-PAJOOH, A., SHOKOOHI-YEKTA, M., SORBI, M. H., & FARAZHADI, M. H. (2018). The Relationship between Cognitive-Behavioral Skills and Mother-Child Interaction with Conduct Disorder Symptoms and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Children with ADHD. Journal of Community Health Research, 7(4), 231-241.
  • MURATORI, P., CONVERSANO, C., LEVANTINI, V., MASI, G., MILONE, A., VILLANI, S., & GENMIGNANI, A. (2021). Exploring the efficacy of a mindfulness program for boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder. Journal of attention disorders, 25(11), 1544-1553.
  • MURRIHY, RACHEL C., ET AL. (2023) Community-Delivered Collaborative and Proactive Solutions and Parent Management Training for Oppositional Youth: A Randomized Trial, Behavior Therapy, Volume 54, Issue 2

Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, addiction professionals, case managers, and other interested individuals.

Customer Service

We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact us at by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.

ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.


Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA. LPA

Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, M.A., L.P.A., is a licensed behavioral health therapist working in a private practice setting in Richmond and Lexington, KY, and a nationally recognized school consultant. Jen has 25 years of experience working with crisis management, psychological testing, inpatient/outpatient treatment, groups, families, and the court system. A tireless and passionate advocate for children and families, she developed a parent training program recognized by the Governor’s Commission for the Treatment of Children &Families and Kentucky’s Child Protective Services. Jen helped create a regional children’s crisis stabilization unit, children’s advocacy center, and an intensive after-school program for behaviorally-challenged youth. She has published the Creative Parenting Handbook, CD Awareness In Focus: Modern Guided Imagery Techniques for Immediate Practice,  CD Awareness in Focus By Kids For Kids, and The Mandala Workbook: Activities Across the Lifespan.

 

In addition to delivering her nationally recognized training programs for PESI/CMI and keynote presentations, Jen regularly speaks on mental health issues and child abuse for Morehead State University, Eastern Kentucky University, KY Child Protective Services, and National Public Radio; as well as serving as the psychometrician for the Center for Academic and Tutoring Services (CATS)-University of Kentucky, and providing psychological evaluations and therapeutic support services for the Department of Disability Determinations and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Jennifer consults regularly for private/state foster care organizations, social services, schools, psychiatric hospitals, Head Start programs, in-home therapy programs, and case management services. Her specialties are in the areas of child abuse, PTSD, DBT, behavioral disorders, anxiety, autistic spectrum, and attachment. Jen shares time-tested, real approaches from the trenches, using humor, energy and passion for helping others.


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