Getting help for behavior at home?
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Anonymous
| We're having some significant behavioral issues with our preschooler at home - beyond what is typical, and some basic strategies (pre talk through expectations, if-then, reinforcement/reward focus, consistent consequences) have failed and it's grinding us down and often presents safety issues. No doubt there are things we are doing that at the least aren't helping, if not exacerbating it (well, we're surely exacerbating it when it gets going and we're at the end of our patience/rope). So we need some help - except we don't know exactly where we'd go to get some? Recommendations? |
Anonymous
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I would read the Kazdin Method and go to the KKI Behavioral Clinic in Columbia, MD to help you learn to implement it. You will get great feedback.
Dan Shapiro runs a wonderful class for parents on raising their challenging child too. |
Anonymous
| We had a terrible experience at KKI for a preschooler. Completely unhelpful. A waste of time and money. Have you tried the TLC's Floortime therapists? |
Anonymous
You had a terrible experience at KKI in Baltimore? The Behavioral Clinic is separate and does not do evaluations like the main campus in Baltimore does (although there is a behavioral clinic in Baltimore as well). Personally, we took were exposed to Floortime therapy through TLC and found it a hugely expensive, a waste of money, not covered by insurance, and the therapist couldn't really explain what it was let alone how to implement it at home. |
Anonymous
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The Yale Parenting Center - where Kazdin is based - has a list of practioners. http://yaleparentingcenter.yale.edu/certification-kazdin-parent-management-training-kpmt
In MD there is only one: Nina Shiffrin, Ph.D., KPMT Alvord, Baker, & Associates 3200 Tower Oaks Blvd Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20852 Phone: 301-593-6554 In VA: Elizabeth Schnobrich, Psy.D., KPMT Licensed Clinical Psychologist Alexandria, VA Cell: 612-220-1694 Email: ecjschnobrich@gmail.com Amy Weidinger, KPMT Mental Health Therapist The Women’s Center 133 Park Street, N.E. Vienna, VA 22180 703-281-2657 x412 aweidinger@thewomenscenter.org I haven't used but had considered doing so. |
Anonymous
| 21:38, Kazdin didn't even positive reinforcement; the behavioral therapy at KKI is almost identical in approach. |
Anonymous
| 21:38 here. He certainly didn't. It is way older than Kazdin. I didn't say he did! Just trying to help OP. |