River Of Life Professional Counseling

Parenting Prosocial Children 20202022

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Please read each statement and choose true or false in response. Upon completion your answers will be sent to River of Life Professional Counseling LLC time and date stamped when you completed the test.

1) Naming in a newsreporter style the behavior of a child demonstrates to the child that you care and are paying attention to him or her.

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2) Logging antecedents and consequences can assist a parent in placing a child behavior in context.

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3) All children at the same age should be given relatively similar rules and consequences because they are basically the same.

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4) Rules and consequences should be individualized to a child’s age, developmental level, personality, and maturity.

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5) Correcting a child’s feelings and suggesting how he should feel instead is helpful.

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6) Normalizing a child’s feelings helps the child feel understood.

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7) Attending to a child’s behavior involves what is said, the child’s nonverbals, as well as what is unsaid or implied.

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8) Phrasing rules as questions is helpful because it gives the child choices and it sound polite.

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9) Rules should be specific, measurable, observable, and achievable.

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10) Chaining is helpful because it gives the child reminders and small cues to assist the child in getting reminders of desired behaviors and outcomes.

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11) Parents need to make sure their child is capable of demonstrating the desired behavior before they set up an unrealistic expectation.

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12) When some children demonstrate inappropriate behaviors it may not be because they are defiant but because they lack certain social skills that need to first be trained and reinforced.

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13) Giving children some tasks or chores to be in charge of can both reduce control issues and improve compliance.

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14) Teaching problem solving steps or ways to imagine prosocial choices is preferable to parents telling children what they should do.

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15) Children may physically need to be reminded to implement a relaxation technique before they can employ positive behavior choices.

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16) Thought stopping is useful because it creates a pause in a child’s inappropriate chain of behaviors.

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17) One way to help children learn how to make positive choices is helping them explore various narratives and stories.

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18) Children can be empowered to choose sunny thoughts instead of rainy thoughts.

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19) Developing prosocial children ideally should involve teaching parents to test their assumptions and exhibit prosocial behavior themselves.

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20) If children are considered gifted they are generally gifted across the board in every area and have no behavior struggles.

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21) Parent paraprofessional groups have been demonstrated to be successful with those in lower SES communities.

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22) The focus on successful treatment should be on the experts teaching desired behaviors rather than parents giving input.

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23) The same rules and consequences that worked for a sibling can easily be used with your client.

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24) Our assessment and treatment should focus on building upon strengths based methods that already work.

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25) A balance between talk therapy and activities is often useful to engage children.

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26) Rules that are very broad in scope like “be a good boy or girl” and “act nice to others” and “clean your room” are effective.

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27) Effective prosocial behaviors are clearly defined in terms of what the behavior looks like, where and when it is to be done, and under what conditions.

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28) Affirmations like “I have…”, “I can…” and “I am…” can be empowering to children especially in group therapy settings.

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29) Building prosocial behavior is as important if not more important than just correcting and discipling negative behavior.

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30) We should assume that children automatically know what the prosocial desired behaviors are.

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