Sparing the rod is not an easy adjustment for parents who have learned that to spare the rod is to spoil the child. However, it is possibly how we have conceptualised ‘the rod’ which is the core of ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have compiled a list of strategies which can help in maintaining motivation and changing behaviour. The article published in the Nature Human Behaviour ...

Jon Becker, upper school history and English teacher, has 9th grader Demetrios Karavedas stand on a chair and apologize for ...

A recurrent theme of this year's AAFP Scientific Assembly was the evaluation and management of behavior problems in childhood. A series of talks focused on this issue and was led off by Dr. Barbara ...

There are many possible reasons for behaviour that challenges. Sometimes, the behaviour happens in phases and stops over time. It can often be managed by recognising and responding to the person’s ...

Find ways to prevent and manage aggressive behaviour in the future, to help both you and the person with dementia. Working out what might be triggering aggressive behaviour may make it easier to ...

With all the recent restrictions on psychotropic medications in skilled nursing facilities, many facilities find themselves struggling with a resurgence in unwanted resident behaviors that were ...