Working with parents rather than directly with children can reduce distress, avoid labels, and create lasting change in ...

A child throwing a toy, talking back, refusing to share, or melting down in the middle of a calm evening can look like simple misbehavior. But very often, what appears “bad” on the surface is only the ...

With kids going back to school, many parents are concerned about how their child will do managing their behavior for eight hours a day. School can be overwhelming for kids who may already struggle ...

In his autobiography Confessions, the North African theologian and philosopher Augustine of Hippo looks back at his early childhood. He recalls the time when he stole an enormous quantity of pears, ...

Positive parenting interventions constitute a family of structured approaches aimed at improving child behavioural outcomes by equipping caregivers with strategies rooted in social learning, ...

Sometimes, as adults, we become so focused on correcting children’s behaviour that we forget to ask what the behaviour may actually be communicating. A child suddenly becomes clingy, withdrawn, ...

Parents may be familiar with this scenario: a child is well behaved at school and polite to their teachers but has a meltdown at home in the afternoon. Or they say please and thank you at a friend’s ...

Parents can get insights into their children’s behaviour during an interactive discussion next week. Chefanices Williams, educational therapist at Victor Scott Primary School, is organising the free ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...