When investigating possible causes and origins of
aggressive behaviours through assessment, it is important to understand the child's socio - ecological context.
Not exact matches
«In many cases the children are given
behaviour labels that don't explain why they are not coping with school and why they express this
through withdrawal or
aggressive or defiant
behaviours.»
The city will now be able to seize a dog that is considered at risk, force an owner to have their dog treated
through various forms of training to curb
aggressive behaviour, or in worst case scenarios order a dog be euthanized.
There is a suite of
behaviour problems that can seemingly be solved
through management, but at great cost to the dog's quality of life: play issues,
aggressive guarding of chew items, and jumpy and mouthy dogs, to name a few.
Aggressive behaviour should be tackled
through training and rehabilitation, not tethering,» says trainer Michelle Chan from Pup Pup «N» Away.
Avoid reinforcement of
aggressive behaviour —
aggressive behaviours can be reinforced
through attention.
When relational
aggressive behaviour is not appropriately addressed and the perpetrator discovers an advantage
through repetition, «emotional bullying» soon rears its ugly head.
The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in child, parents and others, to improve emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic
behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial
behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase child's frustration tolerance
through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of
aggressive behaviours.