Your Teenage Son Is Beginning to Quarrel with You and Has

Your teenage son is beginning to quarrel with you and has become increasingly oppositional. He says that you are treating him like a child and that all his friends have far more privileges than he does. He also demands an increase in his allowance because he can't do things with his friends on the little money you give him. Up to this point, he has been a responsible child and you have had a very good relationship with him. You have been searching on the internet and seeing the symptoms, wonder if he has ODD, or worse yet CD. You take him to see a psychologist. The most likely response from the psychologist will be

A) this is the initial stages of conduct disorder, you should arrange for individual child therapy.
B) this represents late?stage oppositional defiant disorder, there are group programs for parents that can help with management of the disorder.
C) this is likely transient oppositional behavior, it will pass, just continue to monitor.
D) ODD is most often initiated on the home front, this is very serious.