Does your child have oppositional defiant disorder? If so, listen in to learn the tactics for parent management training. Let's talk a bit about what oppositional defiant disorder is, or ODD. It's a pattern of angry, irritable mood, argumentative defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months as evidence by at least four symptoms of the following categories, and exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who's not the sibling. The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context, or it impacts negatively on their social educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The behavior also does not occur exclusively during the course of a psychotic, substance use, depressive, or bipolar disorder. Also, their criteria are not met for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. For the category of angry, that would mean that the child often loses their temper, is often touchy or easily annoyed, is often angry and resentful. For argumentative or defiant behavior, the child would often argue with authority figures, or for other children adolescents they would argue with adults. They often actively defy or refuse to comply with requests from any of their authority figures or with other rules, and they often deliberately annoy others or blame others for their mistakes or misbehavior. Their vindictiveness or spitefulness has to be seen at least twice within the past six months. Also specified would be mild, moderate, or severe, and for mild symptoms you would see these only in one setting, so that would be home or school or work, something like that. For moderate, it would be present in at least two settings, and lastly, severe would be present in three or more settings. Parent management training or PMT is often used to treat those children with ODD. It emphasizes changing how the child responds in interpersonal situations at home, at school, and in the community, and with teachers, parents, peers, siblings, and others. Children five to 12 years old are often the ones who are staying with them PMT. PMT is used to develop pro-social behaviors and eliminate or drastically reduce disruptive behaviors so that the child can function well in the multiple situations and contexts that have been problematic for them in the past. PMT uses learning-based procedures to develop behavior. PMT also produces reliable and significant reductions in oppositional, aggressive, and anti-social behavior and increases in pro-social behavior among those children. The goal of parent management training is to help parents discipline their children. PMT teaches you skills in two parts. One, you show your child what you want from them, given symptoms to behave that way, and reinforce positive behavior by giving approval, praise, recognition, points, tokens, and even rewards. You also learned strategies to correct negative, defiant behaviors by ignoring minor bad behaviors in reinforcing and enforcing consistent consequences. Overall, things to remember is that ODD is a treatable disorder, and PMT is an evidence-based approach meant to help parents through the toughest of times. You will learn how to give instructions in a the word-tative way. Use timeouts effectively, and teach your child to think about the consequences of his or her actions, to praise your child as well as create and use a reward system that works. Parenting can be an amazing blessing, but also come with a variety of different challenges. PMT can help you as a parent develop skills that will promote positive parent and child behavior in a collaborative and effective way.