PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition
Thomas
25 episodes
4 weeks ago
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary discusses his critical perspective on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and argues that ODD is not a primary diagnosis but rather a "risk syndrome," a set of symptoms (defiance, irritability, and vindictiveness) resulting from various underlying conditions like ADHD, anxiety, or trauma. He explains that conceptualizing ODD as a stand-alone disorder often leads to the risky treatment pathway of off-label antipsychotic medication, whereas recognizing...
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Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary discusses his critical perspective on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and argues that ODD is not a primary diagnosis but rather a "risk syndrome," a set of symptoms (defiance, irritability, and vindictiveness) resulting from various underlying conditions like ADHD, anxiety, or trauma. He explains that conceptualizing ODD as a stand-alone disorder often leads to the risky treatment pathway of off-label antipsychotic medication, whereas recognizing...
011 - Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning and Positive Psychology
PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition
17 minutes
12 months ago
011 - Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning and Positive Psychology
Let me know what you think! - In the last episode, I introduced behaviorism, which took a strikingly different approach to human learning and development by basically assuming that everything we are on the inside is somehow learned from the environment, except for some of the most basic things we need for survival. Our inner life and the reasons we give for our decisions are more or less illusions. What we are is what we are conditioned by our environment to be. I started w...
PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition
Let me know what you think! - Dr. O'Leary discusses his critical perspective on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and argues that ODD is not a primary diagnosis but rather a "risk syndrome," a set of symptoms (defiance, irritability, and vindictiveness) resulting from various underlying conditions like ADHD, anxiety, or trauma. He explains that conceptualizing ODD as a stand-alone disorder often leads to the risky treatment pathway of off-label antipsychotic medication, whereas recognizing...
