Managing Challenging Behaviors Flashcards

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What are the 3 support models for managing challenging behaviors

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  • Skilled based: productive, self-sufficient; outcome is to live independently
  • Behavior based: comply with rules; outcome is to live under control
  • Relationship based: respectful; outcome is to live interdependently
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What are some reasons for maladaptive behaviors

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  • Escape or avoidance
  • Getting something desirable
  • Attention & or sensory processing difficulties
  • Communication of a message or a need
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Successful intervention focus

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  • Understand the why: respond to the kids need not behavior
  • Replace inappropriate behavior with more socially acceptable behavior
  • Minimize reactive approaches
  • Develop a plan: ABC chart = Antecedent events, Behavior, Consequence
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Strategies for attention seeking behaviors

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  • Give attention for appropriate behavior & ignore or quietly give time-out w/o drawing attention
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Strategies for escape-based behaviors

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  • Reward appropriate behavior, use signal responses, make accommodations for success
  • Time-out reinforces avoidance behavior
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Rules to successfully change behavior

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  • Analyze your teaching style
  • Understand learning styles
  • Timely feedback
  • Clear expectations & objectives
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Support strategies

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  • Visual schedules
  • Praise the right, instead of correcting the
    wrong
  • Allow choices
  • Give sensory breaks
  • Use low tones to reprimand and correct
  • Don’t set yourself up for a “no” use
    statements not questions
  • Use short concise social stories
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Define conscious discipline

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  • An evidence based, trauma informed approach recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s National Registry of Evidence based Programs and Practices
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What are the 7 skills of discipline

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  • Composure
  • Encouragement
  • Assertiveness
  • Choices
  • Empathy
  • Positive intent
  • Consequences
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What are the 4 elements of connection

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  • Eye contact
  • Presence
  • Touch
  • Playful setting
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Learning begins with connections to others that strengthens ____________ within the brain

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  • Neural connections
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Strategies to teach wanted behaviors

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  • Visual reminders
  • Practice
  • Role-play
  • Coaching
  • Modeling
  • Encouragement
  • Stress reduction
  • Song/music/movement
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Strategies to correct unwanted behaviors

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  • Consequences
  • Contract
  • Counseling
  • Parent contact
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