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Title: Anti-Social Youth & Conduct Disorders (1800)
Provider: Professional Development Resources
Author: Ruth Smith
Author Ruth Smith
Ruth Herman Wells, MS, is the director of Youth Change. She is the author of dozens of books including the popular Temper and Tantrum Tamers, Turn on the Turned-Off Student, Last Chance School Success Guide, and Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers. Every year Ruth trains hundreds of counselors and youth professionals in staff development workshops and conferences throughout the country. Ruth has developed and managed many model programs for delinquent and disturbed students. You can sign up for her popular internet newsletter The Problem Kid Problem-Solver and sample her surprising interventions at her site http://www.youthchg.com, and see hundreds more of her innovative, problem-stopping interventions. Youth Change’s web site has been called the internet’s largest resource site for solutions problem children and adolescents.
Price: 57.00
Credit Hrs: 3
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Description

This course zeros in on the youngster who may damage property, defy authority, steal, lie, torment peers, manipulate and hurt others, disrupt classrooms, make threats, and break laws and rules. In the extreme, some of these youth may even engage in fire setting, sexual assault, or school violence. Anti-social youth and conduct disorders are among the hardest-to-manage youngsters. The conventional methods that work with other youngsters usually fail with this population. For this reason, many youth professionals become profoundly discouraged and frustrated, feeling that there is nothing that Read More

Learning Objectives

1.    Identify aspects of the conduct-disordered child's distinct operating system
2.    List specialized methods used with conduct-disordered youth to effectively prevent and manage misbehavior
3.    Distinguish between diagnosed conduct disorders and undiagnosed, possible conduct disorders
4.    Name ways to gauge and manage the potential for extreme violence by conduct disorders
5.    Identify methods that have been demonstrated to be effective for use with conduct disorders
6.    Identify commonly used, but contra-indicated methods that can exacerbate misbehavior in conduct disordered children and youth
7.    Identify realistic treatment goals for Read More

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