Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Learn about disruptive behavior disorders in this child psychology video from Howcast.

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So disruptive behavior disorders are several different disorders of childhood in which children don’t follow rules, they tend to be defiant, they tend to have difficulties in school and really have trouble making peer relationships. So one of the things we recognize, are three to four percent of the population of children have some type of type of disruptive behavior disorder. A disruptive behavior disorder is an attention hyperactivity deficit disorder, conduct disorder or, an oppositional defiant disorder. Categorically these children have trouble following the rules, they are impulsive, they can be aggressive and they are spending a lot of time getting into trouble. One of the things that we have to recognize that sometimes these disruptive behaviors co-occur, meaning that they happen simultaneously to one child. We see that children are more at risk for disruptive behavior disorders when they have lower IQs and educational difficulties, and there has been some link to social economic status with regards to these types of disorders. We need to recognize that these disorders are treatable and with parent and teacher intervention a child can move past this and be successful.

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  • Dr. Kimberly Williams

    Dr. Williams is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist with offices in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York. She has exceptional expertise in the evaluation of children with academic and learning problems, psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, difficult or oppositional behaviors and those with developmental delays and social deficits. Dr. Williams also provides assessments for individuals with neurologic concerns such as tic disorders and tourettes syndrome, epilepsy, traumatic brain injuries and conditions secondary to medical illness. Dr. Williams is a graduate of Spelman College, earned her Doctor of Psychology at The Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology (The College of William and Mary, Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School). She received her advanced training through Cornell Weill Medical Center at Lincoln Hospital and NYU Child Study Center and went on to join the faculty group practice and serve as Clinical Instructor of the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center, before opening her private practices.