You Can't Make Me: Proactive Strategies for Positive Behavior Change

You Can't Make Me
Build your “behaviour-investigator” skills to develop a behaviour plan that works.

259 pages
2019
ISBN: 9781941765876

A unique look at behaviour through the child’s perspective!

Behaviour isn’t an isolated event. All behaviour is communication, and when it comes to figuring out what your child is trying to say, Dr. Jim Ball has the answers. This book walks the reader through a variety of scenarios that will explore why a child may engage in a specific behaviour, and help you build your “behaviour-investigator” skills to develop a behaviour plan that works.

You’ll find:

Short, quick-to-read, and easy-to-understand chapters about behaviour and behaviour change.
Stories that illustrate six main functions of behaviour.
An on-the-spot behaviour assessment tool to help you figure out the situation and why it’s getting out of control.
A worksheet to create a behaviour plan to reduce problematic behaviours.

In-the-moment strategies adults can use when problems occur, and longer-term strategies to implement over time.

As the adult, behaviour change starts with you. This book applies a whole-person perspective toward behaviour management and will help you address the unwanted behaviour in the moment, as well as provide strategies to prevent the behaviour from recurring again in the future. Shaping and changing behaviour is a journey—and it starts here.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: Why Does My Child Do That?