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Causes Of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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Oppositional-defiant disorder refers to chronic patterns of obstinate, defiant, challenging, confronting and hostile behaviour towards authority figures. Children have a rigid sense of fairness. They are sensitive to when they believe they are being treated fairly or not, yet they treat others outrageously and quite often unfairly. It is believed that oppositional-defiant disorder may have a genetic component but could also be related to birth difficulties. ODD waxes and wanes over time and may not

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