Though there are many different types of strategies to help with challenging behaviors, the focus of this week will be on prevention strategies, or how you can change the antecedents. Most caregivers ...

Operationally define challenging behaviors. Challenging behaviors should be defined in terms that are specific, observable, and measureable (i.e., one can see and count the behaviors). Be specific ...

This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...

This module is about managing your child’s non-compliant behaviors during mission plan activities. Has your child been refusing to participate in steps of their mission plan even when you use the ...

This review and meta-analysis followed methodological and reporting guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), [25] Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of ...

Challenging behavior at work involves crossing social and professional norms in a way that disrupts work and upsets co-workers. To manage such behavior, you must learn how to understand what happened ...

As a child psychologist who specializes in helping kids with challenging behavior, I hear how often we parents take the blame for our kids’ behavior, whether the behavior happens at home, at school or ...

The main idea behind this model is that many behaviors we do are what we call learned behaviors. However, when we say that behaviors are learned, we don’t mean that you purposely taught your child to ...

What 'difficult' children need may not be what you’re picturing.