About Oppositional Defiant Disorder
What does it look like?
How common is it?
What causes it?
How long does it last?
What treatments are effective?
A review of the evidence
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What does it look like?
Children and adolescents with this condition are generally hostile and defiant. Their behaviour is characterized by:

• Frequent loss of temper
• Argumentativeness
• Open defiance of adults’ requests or rules
• Negativity and resentment
• Spitefulness and vindictiveness
• Blaming others for their own mistakes or behaviour
• Deliberately annoying other people
• Touchiness and irritability[1]

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1.	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM IV).1994. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.