Pediatric Behaviors Part 4: Integrating Strategies Into Practice
Presented by Sandra Brown
Nonfinancial: Sandra Brown has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
This course will encourage you to appraise your current service delivery and consider applying behavioral strategies within your practice to empower a child to participate in skilled care. Every child is unique, so this will emphasize treatment of the whole child, maintaining the child-directed approach while maximizing engagement to achieve outcomes. As part of this course, you will differentiate short-term strategies to use in the moment from long-term strategies to make an impact on a child’s participation over time. Additionally, part of shaping and changing a child’s behaviors involves reflection and introspection into your own biases, beliefs, and perceptions, as these can impact your success with implementation of behavior strategies.
Meet your instructor
Sandra Brown
Dr. Sandra Brown is an assistant professor in the occupational therapy department at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida. She has been an occupational therapist for more than 25 years. Although she specializes in pediatrics, she has worked in a variety of settings, including home-based schools, residential…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Every Child Is Unique
As part of clinical care, we evaluate a child to determine their current level of functioning. Perhaps the child is having trouble communicating? Maybe the child has a developmental delay or a motor impairment? This individuality needs to be considered when intervening to address behaviors.
2. Improving a Child’s Participation
Sometimes during treatment when a child reacts strongly, we need to respond in the moment to regain control. This is advisable in the short term, but to truly impact participation and engagement, we need to focus on long-term behavioral changes. Both time frames for behavioral impact will be compared.
3. The Impact of My Behaviors on the Child
Children each have their own unique attributes that we must consider when providing skilled care. We, as the providers, must also check and consider our own perceptions, beliefs, and biases when working with children.
More courses in this series
Pediatric Behaviors Part 1: Identifying Behaviors
Sandra Brown
Pediatric Behaviors Part 2: Examining Approaches
Sandra Brown
Pediatric Behaviors Part 3: When and How to Implement Strategies
Sandra Brown
Pediatric Behaviors Part 4: Integrating Strategies Into Practice
Sandra Brown
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