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06 Self Management

Self-management strategies involve teaching students how to manage their own behaviors. Students actively participate in the selection of the target behavior for improvement and the behavioral goals, in the antecedent and consequent events, and in the recording and evaluation of the behavioral changes. External or teacher control is minimal.

06 Suicide Management

Resources Karl A. Slaikeu, Crisis Intervention: A Handbook for Practice and Research, Second Edition, Allyn and Bacon, 1990 Thomas C. Barrett, Youth in Crisis: Seeking solutions to Self-Destructive Behavior, 1987 Unknown, When Death is Sought, Chapter I, The...

06 Thought Stopping

Clinical Prompt Step 1 List Unwanted Thoughts Step 2 List Pleasant Thoughts Step 3 Entertain Unwanted Thoughts Step 4 Interrupt Unwanted Thoughts Step 5 Switch to Pleasant Thoughts Step 6 Repeat with variations - shout - normal voice - whisper - subvocal Step 7 Use in...

07 Conduct Disorder

Resources Phillip C. Kendall, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Of Conduct-Disordered Children, Cognitive Therapy and research, vol. 14, No. 3, 1990, pp. 279-297 Robert b. Rutherford, Jr., and C.Michael Nelson, Management of Aggressive And Violent Behavior In The...

07 Culture

The scientific study of human social life must concern itself with two different kinds of phenomena. On one hand, there are the thoughts and feelings that humans experience within their minds; on the other, there are the activities that constitute the human behavior...

07 Flooding

The enclosed techniques and procedures were developed with materials from a workbook of cognitive behavior techniques titled ‘Thoughts & Feelings’ and written by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis and Patrick Fanning. The workbook was published by New Harbinger...

07 Philosophy

Managers often look askance at philosophy as though it were a “frill” and not an essential. They feel, perhaps, that results oriented people are pragmatic, not philosophical. Unfortunately, no organization can reach right results without a clear definition of its own summum bonum, (life’s greatest good). This process is important, not only to the field of human services, but also to the process by which people with problems in living seek coherence.

07 Systematic Desensitization

Systematic desensitization is a procedure by which new behaviors are learned in response to stimuli that previously elicited other behaviors. Information giving, relaxation training, establishment of hierarchies, and counterconditioning procedures are included in the strategy.