Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

I'm Susan Coffin, I'm here for Attitude magazine and you are listening to Attitudes

ADHD experts. Today's topic is Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ODD, angry outbursts, rudeness, hostility, defiance.

These are the hallmarks of children with ODD and it's one of the most difficult aspects

of parenting a child with attention deficit disorder in one that

causes the most heartbreak among the parents in our community here at Attitude.

I'm very pleased today to welcome back Bill Dodson, a board certified adult psychiatrist who has specialized for almost 30 years in adult ADHD.

Dr. Dodson is currently in private practice in Denver, Colorado. He's a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the author of the forthcoming

book, What You Wished Her Doctor New about ADHD.

Today Dr. Dodson will talk about strategies for managing oppositional

defiant disorder in kids, in adults, and in the family, including some of the new

information that we have about medications for ODD. Dr. Dawson, thank you so

much as always for joining us.-D-D.D.D. D'D. Thank you so much, as always for joining us.

We are very grateful for your time.

Thank you, Susan.

We're going to be talking today about oppositional defiant disorder, O-D-D-D, and to some extent it's worse, more impairing because of

conduct disorder.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder becomes Conduct Disorder about 40% of the time.

And so it's commonly viewed as kind of a starter version of Conduct Disorder and we try and do everything in our power to keep it

from migrating into full conduct disorder.

It's important to note that this is a lot more than just a misbehaving child who doesn't

listen to his mother. This is a very well-circumscribed genetic neurological

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