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Adolescents who exhibit oppositional or aggressive behaviour often suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression, but diagnosing their conditions isn't the challenge for most therapists. Rather, distrust of therapists and unwillingness to co-operate with treatment most often keep these teens from moving beyond their destructive behaviours and finding real solutions to their problems.
Mode Deactivation Therapy for Aggression and Oppositional Behaviour in Adolescents is a treatment manual for therapists working with adolescents who have oppositional defiant disorder, hostile behaviours, anger issues, and aggression. These teens often clash with authority figures in school, if they attend at all, and may be hostile and oppositional in social settings.
Unlike similar professional treatments, this protocol does not invalidate teens' beliefs and encourages teens to co-operate and openly participate in the therapeutic process. Therapists will learn how to:
"For those of us who realise that medication alone is seldom effective for adolescents with aggressive and/or oppositional behaviors, [this] is an essential companion. This therapeutic approach allies therapists with adolescents. Therapists learn to accept their clients in total and empower them to change. Jack Apsche and Lucia DiMeo have produced a book that is a must-read for any inpatient or outpatient clinician dedicated to understanding and treating the entire child-mind, body, and emotions."
- Robia A. Fields, MD, board-certified psychiatrist and medical director at a residential facility for children and adolescents
