In-Home Behavior & Parent Training Programs
In-Home Behavior and Parent Training Programs to help correct and manage maladaptive behavior(s) while helping to develop a healthier family system
"We went to see our psychiatrist today today, and I told her about Alex's work with my son Charles as his in-home behaviorist, and she said "wow! you get great services!" I told her it was FACT! No other agency would be doing this kind of great work with him."
Thanks again, Suzanne
A variety of behaviors can manifest in childhood. While some habits and phases extinguish on their own, others can become increasingly maladaptive and difficult to manage. When this happens, it can derail child development, and negatively impact the entire family system. Such behaviors often include tantrums and aggression, as well as self-stimulatory and self-injurious behaviors, all of which can be exacerbated by deficits in communication and social skills, anxiety, transitions, and general life changes. When unaddressed, maladaptive behaviors begin to effect the whole family, resulting in negative sibling interactions and making everyday activities, like going to the store, or having dinner out in a restaurant, difficult or even impossible for families to do.
FACT’s In-Home Behavior and Parent Training Programs begin with an assessment that examines the function, severity, and frequency of maladaptive behaviors. This assessment is comprehensive, incorporating direct and indirect measures, and focuses on ten different areas of skill: Communication, Community Use, Functional Academics, Home Living, Heath and Safety, Leisure, Self-Care, Self-Direction, Social, and Work.
Following this assessment, a recommendation is made that includes the type of service and recommended hours, as well as possible funding sources, and specific interventions targeted to address the identified behaviors.
If the decision to begin an in-home program is made, a trained behaviorist will come to the home to work with all family members, and any other adults that interact with the child (nanny, babysitter, grandparents, etc) on how to correct and manage maladaptive behaviors, as well as how to successfully teach the child appropriate replacement behaviors. Additionally, a licensed clinician will supervise and oversee all behavior programs, and will come to the home on a monthly basis to work with the family.
What techniques and interventions are used to help correct and replace maladaptive behaviors?
At FACT, we look at the whole family system and how the system is impacting, creating, and maintaining maladaptive behavior(s) for everyone in the system. To do this many interventions and approaches are used. The approaches used include:
- ABA- Applied Behavior Analysis
This approach looks at functions of behavior and what may be reinforcing the behaviors(s) and ways to replace the maladaptive behavior and reinforce other behaviors. Some of the interventions used may include: operant reinforcement systems, token economies, response cost, checklist, visual/written/pictorial schedules, classic conditioning, shaping, chaining, data collection, and more.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This approach looks at how one thinks (cognition), feels (emotion), and acts (behavior), and how the interaction defines the choices we make. Interventions include: keeping a diary of thoughts and behaviors, questioning and testing assumptions and patterns of thoughts, systemically facing and experiencing avoided activities, testing out new behaviors, and learning and using relaxation techniques.
- Social Skills/Communication Training
This approach uses modeling, structured role play and rehearsal, conflict resolution, and active listening to help shape, teach, grow, and replace and behavior(s) that are influencing and harming social skills for the child. Reinforcement for appropriate communication along with visual or pictorial communication aides are used to help grow communication styles the child uses.
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Based on the family structure and issues present other approaches maybe used, which include: narrative therapy, strategic therapy, family systems, and others.
Let an In-Home Behavior and Parent Training Program help bring a healthier, more fulfilling and productive lifestyle for your family today.