22 | When to Seek Professional Help for Extreme Child Behavior – with Dr. Alan Kazdin

Understanding when to seek professional help for your child's extreme behavior can be challenging. In this lesson, Dr. Alan Kazdin discusses how to identify when behavioral issues go beyond typical childhood challenges and may require professional intervention. Learn about key warning signs such as impairment, danger, unusual behaviors, drastic changes, stress reactions, and unmanageability at home or school. Dr. Kazdin provides guidance on when to trust your intuition and seek professional opinions for the well-being of your child. Uploaded 06-08-25 🎯 Learning Objectives: • Identify key warning signs that indicate the need for professional help. • Understand the importance of trusting your intuition when considering professional intervention. • Learn about the impact of severe behavioral issues on a child's daily functioning and safety. • Recognize when extreme and unusual behaviors warrant an evaluation from a mental health professional. • Explore guidelines for distinguishing temporary behavioral changes from more serious problems. 📚 About the Course Everyday Parenting gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day in the home easier as you develop the behaviors you would like to see in your child. The lessons provide step-by-step instructions and demonstrations to improve your course of action with both children and adolescents. Among many techniques, you will learn how even simple modifications to tone of voice and phrasing can lead to more compliance. The course will also shed light on many parenting misconceptions and ineffective strategies that are routinely used. The key to the course is practice. It is not enough to know the strategies; you have to do them to reap the rewards. Using the techniques on a temporary basis will lead to permanent change. Chances are your parenting is perfectly fine and working the way you would like. But if you have any frustrations with your child or would like improve your effectiveness in changing your child’s behavior, these videos will be a very useful guide. 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyEGNxBvNdOVlianDYgWuc9&si=WvX4JltzYzj7faKi 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-parenting 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/everyday-parenting-abcs-child-rearing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices