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[quote=Anonymous]While you are waiting for the medical appointment, pick one behavior to work on and target just that. First observe for a couple of days and keep a log of how often it happens. Then you sit with him in a calm way and say you have noticed that the behavior is occurring and you give him time to tell his side. Write it down to make it seem like you are taking his point of view seriously. Then you show him your log. Then you talk about what seems to start the behavior. Then you make a plan for stopping the behavior, which is most easily done by replacing the negative behavior with positive behavior. You tell him what you want him to do instead. Then you come up with an incentive to reward him if he can decrease the negative behavior in a set period of time. It might need to be a quick reward after only two days. Then you extend the time for three or four days. The whole time you praise him when he is cooperating. You have to catch him being good, and say so, even if you think he should just know better. While you target the one behavior, you be as positive as you can about everything else. Then you move on to another behavior.[/quote]

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