How to modify behaviors in children?

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It is necessary to know that all behavior is selected by the environment and its consequences. The consequences that cause behaviors to repeat themselves are called reinforcements and those that cause behavior to not reappear are called punishments.

The behaviors can be changed without the other person realizing it instantly. To modify the behaviors without having to perform for example:

• Punishments.
• Shouting.

In the selection of behaviors, for example, the punishment with screams make the children descend behaviors that may not appear in the future, but the punishment is usually an aversive, which generates:

• Negative emotions.
• Frustration.
• Rage.
• Fear.
• Rage towards the one who does the punishment.

This generates a negative idea of ​​themselves in the child. Making them believe:

• That they are not good.
• That are not worth.

But unlike reinforcement, this causes the desired behavior to be shown again, to remain and emotions to generate pleasure.

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To modify the behaviors, the adult must be less attentive to negative behaviors



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People observing only negative behavior without realizing it, are putting their eyes and attention on what tends to be maintained.

When a child behaves well and is not paid attention, that behavior changes and the desire to attract attention returns, as more attention is paid to negative things than to positive ones.

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Game to modify behaviors



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Search for good things. This game requires that the focus of attention be changed, it has to make bad things disappear and go exclusively to the good ones.

This is achieved:

• Determining sanity.
It is about this game changing unwanted behavior, without using violence and without punishment.

Practice of the game:

The adult should ask the child to do something specific, letting him know that he is seeing it and saying the words "I have caught you" and, at the same time, smiling enthusiastically so that the child feels happiness to continue doing it. This attitude is due to the attention paid.

Then you should ask the child questions about: how has this made him feel? What is desired is that this positive behavior is what I continued in the future.

All behaviors followed by a reinforcer reappear and this is what you should look for.

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What happens when things are very bad and you do not have anything to highlight in the behavior?



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It is a personal error, and it is that everything can not be wrong, there is always something that can be well and it is necessary to look for it and start working from there, from that behavior that is hidden and that should stand out.

If the behavior is not manifested, then it is necessary to create it so that the routine is broken and in this way create bonds that lead to modify the behavior in positive and for good.

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Activity to be a record of how things are being done in the modification of behaviors


Create a progress list. Things must be written so that this is recorded and the changes are evidenced.

How to do it:


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• Observe for several days what is normally done, if you look at the good or the bad.
• Whether the different types of behavior are praised or punished. It's to see where the balance of things is.
• Observe how the celebration given to children is expressed.

It is good to have a balance between good and bad, to work on it.




The correct choice to modify behaviors is to reinforce positive behaviors.

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Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://cindycam.vornix.blog/2019/02/12/how-to-modify-behaviors-in-children/

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