Behavior therapy helps the child make crucial cause and effect connections that he or she has not been able to do previously, either through lack of experience or inherent lack of capability. Behavioral plans should be coordinated between school and home for maximum effectiveness. Treatment is often conducted in the context of the family. Therefore the family may require assistance, ranging from education about basic parenting skills to management strategies for the disturbed child. I have a hard time disciplining my child.
All children misbehave at some time.
Only those children and adolescents who have more serious and consistent behavioral problems may develop a Conduct Disorder. CD is manifested in different ways at different ages. Preschoolers may be aggressive, oppositional , defiant and have tantrums. School-aged children may challenge classroom and adult authority, lie and steal. My adolescent son stays out late and doesn't tell us where he is.