You Can’t Make Me! Effective Strategies and Interventions for Students With Oppositional Defiant Disorder — eBook Version

Drawing from her 40 years of experience working with students with behavioral disorders, Beverley Johns explains what may cause ODD-related behaviors and describes approaches that may actually escalate students’ behaviors.

Educators will gain confidence addressing students’ needs and their significant behavioral/emotional challenges by learning 20 real-life strategies to improve rapport with students plus techniques to:

  • Identify their own biases and prevent those biases from impacting relationships with students
  • Improve students’ social skills using 11 activities
  • Teach students emotional regulation skills, including 14 calming strategies to implement when students can’t self-regulate
  • Implement positive behavioral interventions that will reduce ODD-related behaviors
  • React to emergency situations arising from a student’s behavior
  • And more

Includes graphics, charts, and exercises to help implement concepts learned in the school setting.