Children and Adolescents with Oppositional Defiant Disoder: The Impact and Effects on Their Academic Achievement
Abstract
The growth of the child from its pre-schooling stages to adulthood is said to be the toughest time for the parents and well as the child. This is because it involves a pivotal transformation from the journey of childhood dependency towards adulthood independency. One of the major challenges that a child face in adolescence is, the personal agency where/he is influenced by their own effectiveness and image, which is referred as self-efficacy (Zimmerman & Cleary, 2006). In the early stage of teenage, a number of disorders frequently attack a child. The reasons are not as serious as any other psychological disease like schizophrenia or delusional disorder, but they could get serious if they are not counseled. There are many disorders that might happen to any child in his/her adolescence that includes, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Anxiety disorders, Conduct Disorder (CD), Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) etc. Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) is one of them. All of these disorders create detachment of a child from their parents and teachers, and anything that stops them from their liberty and freedom (Nordahl et al., 2010).1.2.