How to manage the desruptive behaviour at home and school

1. Different Skills in Managing he
Behaviour at Home and School
Dr. Sushma Rathee
Assistant clinical psychologist
PGIMER, Chandigarh
email: sushmaratheecp@gmail.com
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2. Activities for Children with Behaviour Problems
1. Exercise or physical activities are perhaps the best means to blow steam off.
When your child gets excited or angry, getting them to play outside can help
relieve them of the energy. If a child’s energy is not properly released, they
tend to release it in the ways they know – tantrums, destructive behavior,
acting out, etc.
2. Role-playing is an excellent activity that can teach your kids to control
impulses. One of the major factors affecting kids behavior is the lack of self-
control.
3. Ask your child to read aloud a book or what they are writing. You can try
this at bedtime when they are still full of energy and need an activity to calm
down and relax.
4. Storytelling is yet another activity that engages their imagination and lets
them use their energy in a positive way. This activity also helps you get an
insight into their frame of mind.
5. Play good behavior games and read child behavior books that can teach
kids about good deeds such as kindness, sharing, waiting and saying nice
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3. Using Positive Methods for Change at Home
1. How might you address your child’s challenging behavior: You’ll find this
reader-friendly site is well organized. It has facts about all aspects involved in
working with children who have challenging behavior. Links to information on
assessment and special education are provided.
2. Yet more on teaching children to manage their own behavior: What
Works briefs from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning summarize effective practices for supporting children’s social-emotional
development and preventing challenging behaviors. This 4-pager describes
practical strategies for helping children learn to manage their own behavior and
provides references to more information.
3. Alternatives to spanking: Based on research, experts offer productive and
concrete alternatives to spanking that parents can implement after little kids have
misbehaved.
4. Written by a psychologist who works extensively with children and teens with
AD/HD and explosive and defiant behaviors, this article talks about how children
and adolescents learn, about misbehavior, and small steps that parents can use to
help their child toward better behavior.
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4. Cont…
5. Get behavior in shape at home: How do you create a Positive
Behavioral Support system in your home? This Web site gives easy-
to-implement suggestions. Learn the reasoning behind different
techniques and how to use them to achieve your behavior goals.
Specific examples include: eating dinner, asking for things while
grocery shopping, and budgeting to teach children the value of
money.
6. Your parent-friendly guide to functional assessment and
support: This 21-page guide describes what a functional assessment
is, and what it can do to help your child. You can use this information
to help your child at home, and also work with school staff to put a
plan into place at school.
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5. Improving Family Life
• How to get help for your child: Having trouble getting what your child
needs? This reader-friendly site offers communication tips to use when
seeking help. You’ll learn techniques for keeping things in perspective,
focusing on the problem at hand, and what info you should be prepared
to provide when you are asking for help. Plus, you can print out a handy
checklist to help keep track of the information you gather.
• How to get help for yourself: The link below will lead you to a group of
parents who are raising challenging children. They invite you in and
offer their site as a “soft place to land for the battle-weary parent.”
• Mental health fact sheets: This web site has dozens of fact sheets on
various issues, including ADHD, depression, conduct disorders,
oppositional defiance disorder, and violent behavior. 5

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4. About temperament and its effect on behavior: Let Great
Schools introduce you to nine temperament traits: activity level,
sensitivity, regularity, approach/withdrawal, adaptability, mood,
intensity, persistence, and distractibility. Find out to pinpoint your
child’s traits and how they can affect behavior.
5. Working with your child’s temperament: Get ideas on
helping children in ways that match their natural tendencies. This
site offers suggestions for managing extreme behaviors. Click on
the link to the Parent to Parent message board to read tips from
other parents.
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7. BehaviourManagementintheClassroom
Model Techniques emphasized
Focusing on Prevention
Preventative classroom
management
Effective teaching practices, frequent monitoring, clear rules and
procedures, social praise, and so forth
Prosocial behavior
Systematic reinforcement, modelling of prosocial behaviour, verbal
instruction, role playing
Moral education
Classroom moral discussions of real-life dilemmas, hypothetical
situations, and literature; role playing; student participation in school
government
Social problem solving
(SPS)
Direct teaching of SPS skills (e.g. alternative thinking, means-ends
thinking), self- instruction training, dialoguing
Effective communication
models
Values clarification activities, active listening, communication and
interpersonal skills training for students and teachers
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8. Cont….
Focusing on Correction and Control of Misbehaviour
Behaviour
modification
Direct instruction; reinforcement techniques, including
social praise, material reinforcers, and tokens; punishment-
oriented techniques, including verbal reprimand, response
cost, and time-out; group contingency techniques such as
the Good Behavior Game; behavioral contracting
Assertive
discipline
Teacher assertion, systematic use of behaviour modification
techniques, continuous monitoring
Reality therapy
Confrontation questioning, classroom meetings, classroom
moral discussions, social problem solving, behavioural
contracting, logical consequences, time-out, preventative
techniques such as democratic governance
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9. Focus on Treatment
Social skills training
Direct instruction, modelling and rehearsal, coaching, self-
instruction, manipulation of antecedents and consequences
Aggression replacement
training
Social skills training techniques, self- instruction (e.g. anger
control training), moral discussions
Parent management
training
Parent training in application of behavioural techniques
Family therapy
Variety of therapeutic and educational techniques, depending
on the particular model
Behavior therapy Variety of cognitive, behavioural, and operant techniques
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10. Classroom
Management Plan…
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11. Classroom Management Plan…
• 8 Components:
1) Level of Classroom Structure – based on risk factors of your
students.
2) Guidelines for Success – attitudes, traits, or behaviors to help
achieve success.
3) Rules – specific, observable, and measurable behavioral
objectives
4) Teaching Expectations – What, how, and when expectations will
be taught
5) Monitoring – How you will monitor the progress of the
expectations.
6) Encouragement Procedures – How you will encourage students to
demonstrate motivated and responsible behavior.
7) Correction Procedures – How you will respond to irresponsible
behavior.
8) Managing Student Work – What procedures and systems you will
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12. CHAMPs…
• Conversation: Under what circumstances, if at
all, can the students talk to each other during
the activity.
• Can students engage in conversations with each other
during this activity?
• If yes, about what?
• How many students can be involved in a single
conversation?
• How long can the conversation last?
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13. Cont….
• Help – How do students get their questions answered during
the activity?
• How do they get your attention?
• If students have to wait for help, what should they go while they
wait?
• Activity – What is the activity?
• What is your expected “end product”?
• This will likely change daily, according to your lesson plans.
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14. Cont….
• Movement – Under what circumstance, if at all, can students
move about during the activity?
• If yes, for what?
• Pencil Restroom
• Drink Hand in/pick up materials
• Other…
• Do they need permission from you?
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15. Cont….
• Participation – What does appropriate student work behavior
during the activity look/sound like?
• What behaviors show that students are participating fully and
responsibly?
• What behaviors show that a student in not participating?
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16. Unmotivated
Students…
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17. Unmotivated Student
• Factors That Influence Motivation:
• Fear of Failure – “Better to look bad,
than stupid”. Safer not to try.
• Lack of Meaning – May not see
relevance to assignments.
• Emotional Distress – Anxiety/Depression
from influences at home.
• Learning Disability – Give up in
frustration.
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 Lack of Challenge
 Desire for Attention – look
helpless to teacher
 Peer Concern – not cool to like
school
 Low Expectation – no
encouragement from home
 Expression of Anger – due to
pressure from parents

18. Unmotivated Student Interventions
• Assess the origin,(records,
teachers, etc)
• Talk with the Student Privately –
develop the relationship.
• Provide a Warm, Accepting
Climate
• Stay Close to the Student
• Introduce the Lesson with
Enthusiasm
• Give Clear Direction and
Feedback
• Present Tasks in Manageable
Doses
• Orchestrate the Student’s
Success
• Highlight the Student’s Talents
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 Vary Your Teaching Style
 Relate Instruction to Student’s
Interests
 Make Instruction Relevant to Real
World
 Provide Hands-on Activities
 Apply “Meaningful
Work”…CHAMPs
 Allow Student Some Control over
what and how he learns
 Praise Student’s Efforts and
Accomplishments
 If Student is too cool, consider
incentives, rewards, group
recognition
 Challenge the Student