Six-Steps to Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour
Everyone likes to focus on solutions to problems and so do we. But when you have 20 odd solutions to choose from how do you know which is the best one?
That is why we have six steps, to help work out and narrow down the strategies that bring about the solutions. Coming up with the best response is not difficult in most cases, but when in is difficult you need all the steps to solve it. The six steps help to:
A more details about the six BECOME steps can be found on the BECOME steps page including a PDF version.
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- pin point what the problem behaviour is,
- explore when and why it occurs and
- helps work out how best to encourage appropriate behaviour.
The six steps
Behaviour
Step 1 — identify the behaviour so you can clearly explain to the person what the behaviour is, the impact it has on others, and why it is considered inappropriate.Emergency
Step 2 — complete an emergency assessment to determine the danger and risks involved in order to keep everyone safe.Context
Step 3 — review the context to see if the situation and history might contribute to the behaviour.Options
Step 4 — begin forming a response plan and decide on the most appropriate style of response.Myself
Step 5 — maintain self-awareness of our own feelings and what might be influencing our decision-making. We also need to understand how we might be part of creating the problem situation. This step is about self-reflection.Enact
Step 6 — enact the response. We need to take action otherwise nothing will change. Based on the response style, this is fine-tuned with a large range of possible strategies.A more details about the six BECOME steps can be found on the BECOME steps page including a PDF version.
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