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
2
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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
3
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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
4
Q
Strategies for attention seeking behaviors
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- Give attention for appropriate behavior & ignore or quietly give time-out w/o drawing attention
5
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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
6
Q
Rules to successfully change behavior
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- Analyze your teaching style
- Understand learning styles
- Timely feedback
- Clear expectations & objectives
7
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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
8
Q
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
9
Q
What are the 7 skills of discipline
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- Composure
- Encouragement
- Assertiveness
- Choices
- Empathy
- Positive intent
- Consequences
10
Q
What are the 4 elements of connection
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- Eye contact
- Presence
- Touch
- Playful setting
11
Q
Learning begins with connections to others that strengthens ____________ within the brain
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- Neural connections
12
Q
Strategies to teach wanted behaviors
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- Visual reminders
- Practice
- Role-play
- Coaching
- Modeling
- Encouragement
- Stress reduction
- Song/music/movement
13
Q
Strategies to correct unwanted behaviors
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- Consequences
- Contract
- Counseling
- Parent contact