Instead of addressing every youth behavior, learn to teach skills to the youth. Skills are a set of preferred behaviors that can generalize to other settings or situations.
In any home setting it is difficult to find that line between what is acceptable behavior and what is not acceptable behavior. Learn to find that line and set high expectations for youth achievement.
The Teaching Family Model has five teaching procedures to help youth learn new behaviors. Find out how each procedure is used and the steps to the interactions that help youth achieve success.
Learn two effective ways to address a youths behavior. Praise will increase the frequency of preferred behaviors and Teaching Interactions will decrease the unwanted behaviors. Try it!
There are times when all children lose emotional control and become angry. The Intensive Teaching Procedure will help you calm the youth, stay calm yourself, and work through the issue in a systematic and effective way.