When Your Young Client is Defiant

I think this particular course topic was dense and multi-faceted, the author helped break it down, to facilitate understanding, comprehension and practice.

Lots of practical strategies, particularly at the end of the course to implement immediately!

The information presented in this course was comprehensive.  Only this past week two elementary teachers asked me what they could do for several children in their classroom who are defiant and have a background of early childhood trauma and poor self-esteem.  With a class of 20 children each, they cannot spend a great deal of time with each one, but there are interventions given, here, that they can use with all the children and that will improve the overall functioning of their classrooms. I will incorporate many of these suggestions into my therapy sessions this week as well as pass along interventions to parents. I like PDR because of the ease of the website! So easy to use. Thank you so much!!

This course was quite helpful in regard to my current situation of working in Educational classes with children that present behavior issues.  I feel I have learned additional means of dealing with communication issues.

I wish I had this information in graduate school;  oh so many years ago!

Great resource for parents/clinicians, loved it! Great information.

Excellent! I can put things right into use with the children I see. Very well done.

Course was good not only for assisting children with defiant behavior, but more importantly, for assisting teachers/parents/caregivers with strategies for themselves in dealing with children with defiant behaviors.

The course was highly relevant and is applicable both in a school based program and in a pediatric private setting.

I am currently a grandmother of a grandson, who has language delays and diagnosed problem behaviors due to sensory disorder.. From the age of 4 has has presented challenging behaviors. The parents have received some information and the child has received behavioral therapy. I am learning whenever I am with him... what to say, how to encourage, motivate and redirect him. Thank you for the knowledge and all positive strategies.

This course was extremely informative. I obtained a lot of information that I will use with my clients.

I enjoyed this course. I found that there are excellent suggestions to deal with defiant clients, and there is new language I can use to implement change.

The material in this course is very valuable and was presented in a clear and organized manner. The scenarios and dialogue presented as examples were also very helpful in clarifying the information. Thank you for offering this course.

This course was packed with good material. For those who do not work directly with children all of this is helpful in many contexts, not the least is help with clinician's inner child in an unruly world. Thank you!

Very well presented and contained interventions/strategies that can be used in therapy sessions.

It was easy to understand and as a result, I can create games and activities directly design to target and deal with defiant behavior.

Well organized with good information. Served as a good refresher for me. Thanks

I really found the way the author presented examples. I could picture them happening from the words used. Very informative.

On line courses are wonderful. Great information and the system was easy to navigate.

This was a very useful training.  I plan to print it out and am sure I will refer to it frequently when working with defiant children and their families.

This is a very good course for practitioners and parents alike. It gives clear techniques to address behavior concerns of children showing defiance.

As a Grandma my favorite new tool I acquired as a result of taking this course was the concept of "tootles". Sometimes my grandkids tattle on each other thinking I will take sides, solve their problem for them, or they just want to get my attention. I am going to introduce the 'tootle' and see what happens.

I really enjoyed this course. I especially liked the examples that were given - much easier to learn that way!

Thank you! Thank you! This course was very informative and timely! The course was well-written and presented information that will assist both the clinician and the parent to better understand and nurture the "defiant" child.

I am currently a grandmother of a grandson, who has language delays and diagnosed problem behaviors due to sensory disorder.. From the age of 4 has has presented challenging behaviors. The parents have received some information and the child has received behavioral therapy. I am learning whenever I am with him... what to say, how to encourage, motivate and redirect him. Thank you for the knowledge and all positive strategies.

This course was packed with good material. For those who do not work directly with children all of this is helpful in many contexts, not the least is help with clinician's inner child in an unruly world. Thank you!

The course was very effective in teaching strategies to help manage challenging behaviors, which can be applied in a therapy session or given as parent education to parents.

In a clear and organized manner, content identified various forms of defiant and challenging behavior, identified executive function skill deficits and triggers, while providing applicable clinical and parental behavior management strategies.

This course was very informative, and gave great strategiesand ways to incorporate positive, instead of negative, reinforcement with a child who displays defiant behaviors in the home and in public.

Somewhat repetitious in content, however it was full of thoughtful and explicit suggestions for managing disruptive behavior.

It was well organized and easy to follow. There were lots of good examples (dialogue or situations) to help cement concepts presented.

I liked the fact that not only did the author provide a rational, but they gave practical suggestion to apply in practice. I enjoyed the course very much.

First time taking a continuing education course with this a as a topic. Enjoyed the reading and learned helpful information!!

Excellent and informative.

Great presentation!!! I can apply this course with my patients and family members. Thanks for this excellent topic.

Well presented and user friendly set up.

This course contains valuable information that I will refer to often.

I LOVED all of the real world examples ... I can't wait to use these in my professional and my personal life.

Excellent course! The practical interventions were very welcome, and will be passed on to my clients.

I work with students that can be defiant and I now have strategies that I can use to help diffuse situations. Thank You.

Really valuable information, perspective, and strategies.

Loved all of the dialogue examples of statements that show empathy. I also appreciated strategies shared to help defiant children and their parents view the independence/ control they thrive on in a more positive and strengths based manner.

Another great training. I loved the part about releasing a child from their role as defiant.  This will hopefully help me in my work at an elementary school where a few students have been labeled. I really want to help these children, their teachers, and parents. This training gave me so many things to try. Thanks so much!

The lists at the end for “helpful responses to defuse a conflict,” “phrases to help reflect your child’s feelings,” “… a step-by-step process..,”and “phrases to help clarify…” make for an easy quick reference Lots of helpful information that I plan to use very soon. Thank you!

I thought it was a great course. I have one particular student I was thinking of throughout the course and all of the information and strategies were helpful in understanding and making a plan for him. Thank you!

Wish I had the information last year when I had a defiant student.

Excellent discussion of strategies and interventions.

I really liked the layout of this course. It was easy to read through and understand when concepts were changing. I felt like it helped with the retention of the information as well because everything was broken out very nicely with indents and bullets and bolded fonts.

This content was useful both professionally and personally, as the parent of a strong-willed child! Thank you!

I really liked the practical examples and suggestions offered in this course.

This was a great course! I loved how easy it was to read, digest the information, and the real world examples it provided.