Throughout the past 11 months Maribel did not have an exacerbation of current medical conditions. No hospitalization, ER visit or serious acute illnesses/injuries. Client’s major concern continues being her behavioral episodes that included disruption (yelling, crying, cursing), self-injury (biting self, picking scabs, head banging), and aggression (hitting, slapping, scratching, biting peers or staff). Psychiatric symptoms are currently treated with medication and Positive Behavioral Support Plan; psychotropic medication adjustments during the year were made as per patient’s response and psychiatrist discretion (refer to medication review). Maribel underwent dental rehabilitation under general anesthesia on 5/16/16 and EGD on 06/14/16; both
Aside from the various prevention and outreach programs, HTYFS also offers family therapy to Hanover Township residents. Though, technically, HTYFS counseling serves the family, clients can be seen individually or as a group as long as there is a child under the age of nineteen living in the home. Therefore, clients may be youth, children, couples, individuals, a parent, or families. Clients are seen either by a LCPC, LCSW, MSW, or an intern. Therapy is mostly grounded in Family Systems Model, but Structural Family Therapy is also used.
Response to intervention is an approach to proving services and intervention to students who are struggling to learn at cumulative levels of intensity. RTI is used at many schools to assess, plan for, screen, and provide interventions for any student that is at risk of school failure due to behavior and academic needs. RTI is an initiative that takes place in the general education environment and also makes the decision whether instruction needs to be modified. Just like any other approach RTI has pros and cons. One pro of the RTI is that it requires very little educational disruption for testing.
When people's credo changes there has to be something or someone that affected them to make them change their credo. For example someone can be affected emotionally in their lives that will change in how they believe in something or someone. A good example of this is Jemima finch who has various credos throughout the book, that change while he he starts to mature and after the case of Tom Robinson who lost his case just for being black. At the beginning of the book Jem is young and has no idea about racism, which growing up was normal to call a black person a “Niger” which he didn't see that it was bad when father would tell him not to use that word.
POSITIVE REWARD PROGRAM “Students will earn privileges, not lose them!” Lou Thompson (Following months of therapy.) Lou KNEW the program would not work. (“Our Conduct Disordered, Assaultive student will blow it off.”)
Within this theory there are two types of punishments and two types of reinforcements. Positive reinforcement deals with the presentation of positive stimuli after an action. Negative reinforcement is when a negative stimulus is taken away. Positive punishment is when undesired consequences are attached to a certain behavior. Lastly, negative punishment is when desired consequences are removed such as material items.
Because adolescents are often mandated by the court or by their parents, YES Community Counseling Center uses an intervention called Motivational Engagement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT 5) to engage their adolescent clients. MET/CBT 5 is an evidence-based practice called. It is a 5-week program in which adolescents are educated about the consequences of drug and alcohol use, skills for resisting drug and alcohol, and skills for talking about their issues. When a client is involved in the MET/CBT 5 program, they are also involved in the Psycho-Educational Group. The Psycho-Educational Group is a minimum of twelve weeks, during which they discuss issues surrounding substance abuse.
Finally, positive reinforcement is rewarding the desired behavior, thus encouraging the behavior to be repeated (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2011). These three strategies are aimed at successfully increasing positive
Based on current research, Adlerian theory is being used when working with students across different settings. Some researchers work with small groups and others with the individual itself. According to Carlson, Erguner-Tekinalp, and Hamm (2016), a study was conducted where 32 male teenagers participated in a 12-week group counseling program. The model used for this program was the Adlerian-Based positive group counseling approach. The goal was to increase positive emotions, engagement, and individual strengths.
After observing the clients behavior, it is evident that she has a problem limiting her excessive cellular device usage. Therefore, the behavioral intervention plan will be targeting the client’s cellular device usage in class, as well as outside of class. The plan will be targeting all cellular device usage, which includes playing games, texting, scrolling though social media sites, and finally listening to music. To prevent the client from using her phone during lectures, the behavioral plan instructed her professors to make her write an essay whenever she is using her phone.
Negative punishment is removing something from the situation, so the behavior is less likely to occur. Positive punishment is adding something unpleasant to the situation, so the behavior is not as likely to happen. This paper will
Hoda (age 8) is my younger sister; she is kind, playful, and is often annoying. Hoda is always jealous of me whenever I buy something or receive something as a present, she wants whatever I get, and sometimes she even takes it without me knowing. Two ways to discourage Hoda from performing this behavior is positive punishment and negative punishment. Positive punishment is giving something a person does not like to decrease an undesirable behavior, to do this I will tell her in a louder voice that she cannot get everything I get or have, and tell her that she isn’t being kind. Negative punishment is taking away something a person likes in order to decrease the undesirable behavior.
“Crisis” refers to situations in which a client identifies a sudden loss of their ability to utilize with critical thinking and coping skills. Fatal situations can be identified with variable conditions, Such as natural disasters (Eg: Earthquake or tornado), the drastic changes in relationships to the loss of it (Eg: demise of a friend or family member or divorce). Crisis Intervention includes techniques that offers immediate and short-term assistance to clients who have encountered situations that produces emotional, mental, physical, and behavioural distress. It has several purposes, it aims to lessen the force of a client’s enthusiastic, mental, physical and behavioral reaction to a crisis. Another purpose is to help clients return to their level of functioning before the crisis.
This method of operant conditioning allows a person and or animal to realize when something is being done correctly and that it should be followed in the future. This method is rewarding and allows it to be beneficial for someone. According to a research conducted to treat problem behavior in Atlanta, researchers finalized that “training and treatment analysis showed that treatments based on positive reinforcement were effective at reducing problem behavior. (Call, 2014). This research proves how positive reinforcement can provide a good outcome for future behaviors.
Positive reinforcement - adding something positive in order to increase a response Positive reinforcement helps to shape and change behaviour and works by presenting a motivating/reinforcing stimulus to the child after a desired behaviour. Positive reinforcers therefore
