Case Study The case study that I have chosen is titled Psychotic Student? found on page 159 of our text by Cipani and Schock (2010), which references a male adolescent who is enrolled in both a residential and day treatment program for emotionally disturbed children. He has been demonstrating a variety of undesired and disturbing behaviors as well as a decrease in his work production through avoidance tendencies which were simply ignored therefore leading to his disengagement in academic tasks. In an attempt to increase this individual’s task completion he was restricted from leaving his seat to engage in free time or preferred activities until a specific amount of his work was completed. This strategy was also carried over into his home environment and eventually began to show a gradual improvement in the amount of non preferred tasks being completed. Diagnosis and Suggested Intervention Due to the disruptive and avoidant behaviors being exhibited by this particular adolescent I would diagnosis him with a disruptive behavior disorder, precisely oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) (Burnette, 2013). It could still be difficult to make this definitive diagnosis without further assessing his history with regards to development, familial and environmental background experiences, potential trauma and patterns of behaviors. There could also be the possibility of co-occurring diagnoses such as depression or anxiety for this individual which would need to be assessed through further assessment techniques such as interviews, behavioral observations and self report scales. It is mentioned that the residential and day treatment programs that he is enrolled in are for severely emotionally disturbed children indicative of the fact that he may have experienced some level of trauma in the past contributing to some of the disruptive and noncompliant actions he displays (Burke, Rowe & Boylan, 2014). Individuals with ODD are typically diagnosed prior to the age of 8 and are known to demonstrate a pattern of defiant, disruptive and hostile behavior and can also be associated with antisocial behavior as well as an increase in risk for multiple forms of psychopathology (Burnette, 2013). This particular adolescent has become increasingly incompliant with completing tasks, whereas his behaviors are now effectively aiding in his escape and avoidance of tasks (Cipani & Schock, 2010). A proposed treatment plan for this individual would consist of cognitive behavioral intervention and behavioral parent training, which can also be implemented by the staff or teachers within his residential and day treatment programs (Matthys, Vanderschuren, Schutter & Lochman, 2014). The combination of these two intervention methods have been found to be successful in the treatment of ODD in younger aged children through adolescence with improvements in attention, social reinforcement, emotional regulation, monitoring and supervision of behavior, social skills and.