LUNA (Learning to Understand and Navigate Anxiety)

Managing Challenging Behaviors by Focusing on Antecedents

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Though there are many different types of strategies to help with challenging behaviors, the focus of this week will be on prevention strategies, or how you can change the antecedents. Most caregivers already use many prevention strategies without even realizing it. For example, when you go to the grocery store, you may avoid going down the toy aisle to prevent your child from asking for a toy. Can you think of ways that you already prevent challenging behaviors from happening? By using the ABC model and focusing on the antecedents that trigger certain challenging behaviors, we can create a plan that involves prevention strategies.

Using prevention strategies

We are going to provide you with a list of different prevention strategies that you might find helpful. As you watch the video below, think about how you are already using each strategy or how you can start to use it.