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There are three types of kids who may be at the highest risk of
extreme violence. Obviously, you must take seriously any threat or
indication of danger from any kid, so if a dangerous child you know
doesn't fit one of these categories, please don't just breathe a sigh of
relief. Rather, the point of emphasizing these three top-risk youth, is to
have you apportion your time wisely. You can't monitor each child
equally. This information may guide you on who you monitor most closely,
especially in the absence of other events or information to guide you. In this space, we will have time to cover only one of these youth in
any kind of detail. We will cover the second two kids in the third issue of
this magazine, plus we'll expand a bit on the information covered here.
We understand you may want to know all that right now,
so if you want to
learn more immediately about any of these three youth,
go to our web site (click here) and read a
reprint of the full article that this text is excerpted from. Our
information on the 3 most violent kids was first published by The Child
Welfare Report in 1998, and is updated and revised here. The youth at highest risk of extreme violence may be the conduct
disordered child. If you don't already know this term, visualize the
fictional character, J.R. from the TV show "Dallas" because the hallmark
of being a conduct disorder (CD), is having no heart, no conscience,
no remorse. Only a mental health professional can diagnose a conduct
disorder for sure, but being aware that you may have a conduct
disordered child in your class or group, is important to ensuring your
safety, along with the safety of your kids, because you work with conduct
disorders completely differently than other kids. Since the CD child has
no conscience or relationship capacity, you should not use relationship-based
approaches with a diagnosed conduct disorder. It would be insensitive to call a conduct disorder a "baby sociopath,"
but that is close to what the term means. It means that the child acts in
ways that appear to be seriously anti-social, and the concern is that the
child may grow up to be a sociopathic type of person. Since this child
cares only about himself (CDs are predominately male), there are little
brakes slowing this child from doing serious or extreme violence. Not every conduct
disordered child will engage in horrific behavior. There is a range of
misbehavior CDs may get involved with, ranging from lying to setting
fires or being a sexual predator. At the most serious end of the spectrum,
lies the possibility of extreme violence, such as a school shooting. In our workshop, we spend at least several hours helping you understand
how to work with conduct disorders.
You can come to one of our workshops, get the workshop on DVD (click here)
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teach you how to work with this most
hard-to-manage youngster. But do something to make sure you thoroughly
understand how to work completely differently with this youth than any
other child. Methods for Conduct Disordered Youth
There's not space for all the critical do's and don't's that you must know
but here are some of the most important to give you a bit of an introduction to
what you need to know: DO The main point we give in our classes is that these children
operate on a cost-benefit system, and that to control your CD kids, you
must keep the costs high, and benefits low. These children also
especially need to pro-actively learn how to manage their fists, mouth,
and actions. Your goal is to teach them that when they hurt others, it
often hurts them too. All interventions must be in the context of
"I-Me," because that is all this youngster is capable of caring about. DON'T There are so many "DON'Ts" that it's hard to know where to start.
Even more problematic, many of the ordinary techniques
that you use with other kids utterly fail
with CDs, and are actually quite dangerous to use.
Here are several of the most critical concerns to be aware of when
you work with a diagnosed-- that's the important word here-- conduct
disorder. Without the diagnosis, use these guides especially carefully.
It's important to note that a little bit of information can be a dangerous thing,
so be sure to
upgrade your skills on CDs more thoroughly than reading this brief introduction. You can
easily use our resources for this purpose (click here). Since safety is
always a serious concern when working with CDs, there is no substitute for learning more than
the headlines listed here.
DON'T have a heart-to-heart relationship. Hopefully this brief guide to the hardest-to-manage, most potentially
dangerous youth will help you avoid using everyday interventions that will
be unproductive, even dangerous. Hopefully this information will
steer you towards relying on non-relationship-based interventions
that emphasize learning skills like anger control, managing the fist, etc.
along with firm rules, boundaries and limits.
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If you do come to our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach
and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop, we'll spend as much
time on this complicated
child as you want (click for details.) We hope to meet you soon at a class near you. Next Issue:
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all 200 interventions without leaving home! (Click here
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and all course materials. Turbo-charge your skills and get hundreds of reproducible
handouts and printables. Optional college grad continuing ed credit is just $43, and most clock hours
and CEUs are free. You'll finally have all the tools you need to turnaround apathy, disrespect,
bullying, violence, Asperger's, misbehavior,
poor motivation, verbal abuse, peer problems, and much more. Classroom and group management
problems stop here.
To order, call 1-800-545-5736,
click here to email, fax 503-982-7910, or
click here to order online. Library of Congress ISSN: 1526-9981 | Youth Change, Your Problem-Kid Problem-Solver
Recap of Part 1 Youth at 2nd and 3rd Risk of Extreme Violence
Thought Disorders Unless you work in a treatment setting, just a very small fraction of
the children you work with, may have what mental health professionals
call a thought disorder. Like diagnosing conduct disorder, thought disorder can
only be determined by a mental health professional. A lay person can do grave
harm attempting to diagnose mental health disorders. While the thinking of the conduct disorder is
clear and lucid, that assumption is not always true for the
thought-disordered child. The child who has been diagnosed with this
type of problem by a mental health worker, has very serious problems
with their thinking. The child may hear voices or see visions that no one
else can, for example. The child may believe demons or devils are
governing them. If the voices, for instance, tell the child to hurt
someone, then the child may feel compelled to do it. This is where
potential danger could lie. The thrust of working with a diagnosed thought disorder
on proper medication, although focusing on skill building and structure
are also important. The single most important concern
will be that the child takes any prescribed medication regularly and
properly, because when properly medicated, this child may
function almost normally in many ways. When not correctly medicated,
this child is at the mercy of any demons, visions, voices or upsetting
thoughts that pop into their head. Severely Agitated, Depressed Kids Any emotion that a child has trouble managing may get acted out
or acted in. Depression is generally acted in. Many view it as
anger turned inward: the child withdraws, reduces their activities,
may eat less, etc. But, depression can also be acted out. Feeling
cornered, unable to endure any more pain, some children will act
out, sometimes lashing out in very severe ways. All things in nature
strive to come to a conclusion. Storms eventually dissipate, the
rain ultimately gives way to sun, and even the snow will eventually
end. Humans, as part of nature, also tend to move towards resolution.
For some children, extreme violence can be the flash point that
offers that resolution. When there appears to be no hope, perhaps
the child believes that there is nothing left to lose. Depression can be
tough on adults, but couple the depression with a child's lack of time
concept, lack of perspective, their impulsiveness, immaturity, and
resistance to understanding the link of actions to final outcomes,
extreme violence can seem to be a solution. If this
vulnerable child becomes involved with a conduct disordered
peer, you can see how under certain circumstances, that could
become a deadly combination as the depressed, agitated child may
join in the acting-out. To help this child, alleviating some of the torment will be critical.
Help to manage anger in socially acceptable ways, tempering the
depression, and alleviating some of the agitation can keep this
child from remaining at the level of extreme discomfort they
currently experience. If this child receives useful aid to vent
the agitation and can find some tempering of the depression, any risk of
extreme violence can be significantly impacted. Of the three
risk categories, this group's concerns are potentially the most
amenable to intervention by you, and is of the three, the
most hopeful diagnosis. You can have much lasting impact
on this child. The three best interventions: Talking out problems, exercising and
possibly anti-depressants. Appraising the Risk You can imagine that the conduct disorder is already lit;
a flame is burning. Whether that flame becomes smaller,
flares larger, or creates an inferno, is anyone's guess, but
the flame is burning always, the potential for disaster is
always there. The thought-disordered child may be like a pilot light,
a tiny flame that is always lit, but is fairly unlikely to
inexplicably get massively bigger or out of control. Properly
shepherded and assisted, this light may stay forever just a
benign flicker. Unshepherded or inadequately assisted,
however, this flame can get bigger, even flare out of
control. The extremely agitated depressed child may be the
unlit match stick that the judge visualized. Outside
factors will likely come into play to incite any flare-up.
Outside forces could include peer pressure, bullying, crises, substance
abuse, family woes, or just mounting problems that fuel the
agitation and create a profound, all-encompassing sense of
desperation that leads the child to "spontaneously" combust.
Like the thought-disordered child, the severely agitated
depressed youth can often be so readily aided if the
community can identify them, then consistently care and
effectively intervene. In Summary
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