Why is it important to use preventative strategies for behaviors instead of consequences?
Among the key reasons are the following: • If you can prevent the behavior, all of the consequence activities that usually follow the behavior are avoided. • We tend to get better at the things we practice. Preventing the behavior means that the student is not practicing, and thus getting better at the challenging behavior. • We repeat behaviors that work for us. When we teach and reinforce behaviors that we want a student to use, the student will use them because they work better. • When we focus on consequences to try to reduce behaviors, we take away a behavior that has been working for the student without giving her another way to get what she wants. If it is important enough to the student, she will find another behavior that we may dislike even more to meet the same need. · • Punishing consequences tends to become less effective with use.
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