Friday Feature: Collaborating With Parents in Using Effective Strategies to Reduce Children’s Challenging Behaviors

Friday Feature: "Collaborating With Parents in Using Effective Strategies to Reduce Children’s Challenging Behaviors" (Fettig, Schultz, & Ostrosky, 2013) from the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Young Exceptional Children journal

The authors describe principles of partnership with families, including communication, respect, trust, commitment, and equality (p. 32); discuss how to understand challenging behaviors, provide examples of the three components of a behavior support plan (prevention strategies, new skills to teach, and responses to challenging behavior - see the helpful chart on p. 35).

The principle on equality, defined as "sharing power, fostering empowerment, and providing options to families" (p. 32; see chart) was a great reminder!

Question for us to reflect on:
To what extent do we "share power" with families when collaborating to support children's positive behaviors?

Please share your thoughts in the comments section below!

Read more by accessing the article on the web: http://journals.sagepub.com/d…/full/10.1177/1096250612473127
 
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