Patricia McGuire – Temperament-Based Interventions: Treating ODD, ADHD & Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

Outline

Traits Linked to ODD, ADHD and Anxiety

• Neurobiological links of temperament
• Temperamental patterns
• Environmental influences on behavior

Assessment Tools

• The 9 trait temperament profile
• Behavioral assessment tools
• Red flags that can be found in temperament

TEMPERAMENT-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR ODD, ADHD AND ANXIETY:

Executive Functioning (EF) Strategies

• Promote EF with the temperament/ disorder link in mind
• Decision making: The 7 steps that need to be mastered
• Linking EF strategies to improve organization and academics skills
• Engage behavioral inhibition and self-monitoring

Cognitive Processing Strategies

• How the senses create cognitive processing
• Breakdown tasks and activities to increase processing
• Flexible thinking and self-monitoring skills for staying on task
• Teach problem-solving as a tool of ` ` processing

Social-Emotional Strategies

• Problem-solving skills for emotional self-regulation
• Teach internal bully control
• Language strategies to regulate emotional behavior
• Use choices to engage and persuade

Behavioral Control Strategies

• Teach skills to prevent meltdowns and control anger
• When fight or flight responses are in overdrive
• 3 steps to help the child experiencing sensory overload
• Affirmation and empathy through cognitive skills and modeling
• Debrief after an explosion