ODD and behaviour
Oppositional defiant disorder, the behaviour that goes with ADHD, and the strategies that help at home and at school.
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Explanation Sheet 2
Oppositional defiant disorder and MERIM
Most children with ADHD (and also many ADHD adults) show some difficult and oppositional behaviour. Explanation 2 describes a logic to the maladaptive reward-seeking behaviour. This explanation may make it…
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Explanation Sheet 4
Behaviour strategies for ADHD
This Explanation builds on Explanations 1-3 and describes non-medical strategies for helping people with ADHD to cope better with carrying out their daily activities.
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Journal article
Rules of Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A New Therapeutic Concept
Oppositional defiant disorder can be thought of as a set of external ‘rules’ that a low mood pushes a child to follow – never admit to being wrong, always argue,…
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Book chapter
Therapy for ADHD Directed Towards Addressing the Dual Imbalances in Mental Effort and Reward as Illustrated in the Mental Effort-Reward Imbalances Model (MERIM)
In this chapter we describe a clinical model for ADHD: the Mental Effort Reward Imbalances Model (MERIM). We use this model to explain some of the behaviour commonly observed in…