Behavior

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You should not develop a behavior plan for any behavior until you have analyzed

the function of the behavior and what payoff your son gets. Too often people

assume that a behavior is happening for the same reason it happened to someone

else. Each of our kids are unique.

Observation is your best skill when trying to determine the function of his

behavior. Antecedent, behavior, consequence is the formula.

Antecedent = what happened before the targeted behavior. This could be

immediately before (and for younger kids that is normally the case). Or it

could have happened a while ago. Or it could be accumlation over time. It also

could be something internal.

Behavior = in this case it is him hitting you in the face.

Consequence = what you do afterwards.

So if the function of the behavior is for attention, the child has learned that

he gets more attention after he hits you and his behavior suggests he might

desire your attention.

If the function of the behavior is avoidance, he may be trying to avoid a task

or command.

and the list goes on. The way to change behavior is to either change the

antecedent or the consequence. But you can't make a good plan to do that until

you have identified the function.

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> Need advice my son just started hiting me in my face last month and I hear

that he's doing it for attention.he's nonverbal so that's he's way of getting it

..what do I do to get him to stop.

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[Guest guest]

I was talking to two behaviorists that are hired consultants for me. I told them

about this general delima. It is important to be subjective and the wrong kind

of strategy can be very adverse. Psychological transference of subjective

behavior and general stratagems do not always help and can be adverse. This is

why unqualified input without observation of a subjective individual and the

generic formulas is simply potentially very adverse.

The world of behaviorism is not as straight forward as it would seem to the

typical parent. If a parent cannot prevent adverse behavior with general

parental wisdom it's time for a professional. Object transference of aggression

may seem logical but may create more aggression but other times the transference

of aggression from a person to another object like a large pillow in a positive

way like a sport in instruction may decline adverse behavior as the object where

aggression was toward is transferring the aggression with positivity. Accepting

the aggression as a method of expression and transferring the mode of expression

toward a neutral object may or may not work subjectively but more importantly

could create additional adverse aggressive tendencies..

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> You should not develop a behavior plan for any behavior until you have

analyzed the function of the behavior and what payoff your son gets. Too often

people assume that a behavior is happening for the same reason it happened to

someone else. Each of our kids are unique.

>

> Observation is your best skill when trying to determine the function of his

behavior. Antecedent, behavior, consequence is the formula.

>

> Antecedent = what happened before the targeted behavior. This could be

immediately before (and for younger kids that is normally the case). Or it

could have happened a while ago. Or it could be accumlation over time. It also

could be something internal.

>

> Behavior = in this case it is him hitting you in the face.

>

> Consequence = what you do afterwards.

>

> So if the function of the behavior is for attention, the child has learned

that he gets more attention after he hits you and his behavior suggests he might

desire your attention.

>

> If the function of the behavior is avoidance, he may be trying to avoid a task

or command.

>

> and the list goes on. The way to change behavior is to either change the

antecedent or the consequence. But you can't make a good plan to do that until

you have identified the function.