Re: Assignment #2 -- Life-span Human Development

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Subject: Re: Assignment #2

Author:
Alicia Scott

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Date Posted: 22:04:29 06/13/10 Sun
In reply to: Dr. M-J 's message, "Assignment #2" on 19:25:40 06/11/10 Fri

>Assignment 2 (Behaviorism): June 13
>Post a response to the following question by first
>clicking onto "Post a Reply to this Message"
>
>Think of a problem/situation in your area (teaching or
>counseling or as a parent) where you would use of have
>used behavioristic or social learning theories.
>Provide an example of the problem/situation and the
>solution.

I am a strong believer in the power of change that is possible by means of all behavior therapies. Like I said before I work at a real estate title and closing office so I don't have the opportunity to work with children on a day to day basis as of right now. I did work with a child last semester, however, as a requirement for one of my classes. I meet with this child (6 years old-male) about 6 times over the course of the semester and through our sessions, I quickly picked up some of the child's behaviors that were causing him to get in trouble at school. Through our sessions I was able to get him to notice these disruptive behaviors and we also worked together to create a behavioral contract that he was to abide by for a set time frame. If he was able to keep the promises that he made in the contract, he received a reward, if not, there was a negative punishment. This contract worked well as he had some input of how it was going to work. I have since found out that the child and his father continue to do behavior contracts when the child begins to slip again and they are working on getting him to continue the positive behaviors with less use of the contracts.
Children are so capable of change and can easily be taught, through behavioral techniques, new behaviors that can benefit them throughout their life. Behavioral theories, especially Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, are quite interesting to me and can help for rapid change in large populations such as schools.

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Re: Assignment #2	Kelly Hanks	19:18:37 06/14/10 Mon