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Questions to ask yourself to see if your child is using controlling behavior

Questions to ask yourself to see if your child is using controlling behavior

  • Does your child seldom want to do anything you ask b will gladly do those same things 5 mins later when it was his idea?
  • Is it difficult for you to find reinforcers that seem to be strong enough to keep your child's interest for more than a minute or two?
  • Does your child need to keep things in specific order, or to put things in a line and then gets upset when you interfere?
  • Does your child seem to like everything, but chooses to play alone rather than follow a direction to earn time to play with a favorite toy?
  • Does your child always have to carry things or have things in his hand or mouth?
  • Does your child only accept specific foods anwill resist any attempt to get himto try anything new?
  • Does your child's behavior seem to have no reason?
  • Does your child's behavior seem to have an unlimited number of reasons?
  • Does your child expect you to behave in a certain way around him or follow specific rituals or routines?
  • Does your child, not only like to watch TV or listen to the radio but must be in control of the volume, channel and or remote control?
  • Would your child choose to go hours without food rather than say the word "please"?

Dominance

  • The more the parents accommodate the child's behavior & demands the more controlling the child becomes. Eventually parents begin to think they need to follow their child's demand if not they are doing more damage than good to their child

Questions to ask yourself to see if your child is using controlling behavior

  • Does your child say words many times until you give in and repeat the words to him?
  • Does your child constantly point to or tap on items in books or photographs for you to label them for him?
  • By attending to your child's every whim, you are hindering their change to interact with the outer world and allowing them to stay in their own inner world
  • Does your child have items that only he is allowed to touch or play with?
  • Does your chld immediately tune out, tantrum, or walk away when you do not give him what he wants?

Rules for interacting with a child engaging in controlling behavior

  • Does your child purposely do & say things that he knows will make you feel angry or embarrassed?
  • Does your child constantly change the subject of conversation and or ask repetitive questions?

Dominance

  • Do not let your child's countercontrol behavior change the way you reinforce

Countercontrol

  • Does your child refuse to give back exactly what you asked for but always finds a way to give you a close approximation to what you want so that you accept it?
  • Do not let your child's countercontrol behavior change your willingness to follow through with teaching

Dominance

Dominance

  • Does your child walk away or refuse reinforcement after you have forced him to complete a task?
  • The dominant figure in any environment is the one who makes the rules by which everyone lives: The autistic child is usually the dominant figure at home or in the classroom
  • The behavior that manifests itself may look like it is sole for attention or escape but it occurs as a reflexive countercontrol response meant to avoid losing standing in the relationship.
  • Remain calm and in control of your emotions. If you cannot, pretend to be calm or leave the interaction
  • When a child is asked to relinquish a choice & asked to follow instructions he sees it as a harbinger of rough times ahead. This creates a reflexive motivation to remove or abolish this worsening set of conditions
  • When the parents begin to follow the demands of the child and give up instructional control. the child reinforcers this behaving by engaging better with his parents
  • It is possible that some children with autism may be motivated by the inability to understand the complex, ever changing rules of social interaction.
  • Access to greater choice acts as a generalized reinforcer for all the behavior that allowed a child to gain and maintain this dominance
  • Whenever possible, work choices into your directions including choices about the order of activities and reinforce every difficult choice that the child makes quickly and appropriately.
  • These behaviors are SOCIALLY mediated- positive or negative- or AUTOMATICALLY reinforcing-positive or negative

Rules for interacting with a child engaging in controlling behavior

  • When a child has access to free choice he is able to do exactly what he wants, whenever he wants. This FREEDOM from outside pressure will motivate a stronger desire to hold on to the dominant position and to countercontrol any attempts to take that dominance away.
  • When a child is asked to follow an instruction they may refuse to follow it because of the fear of the repercussions that are to come- having to follow rules constantly and losing control
  • Know what behavior you want to reinforce and which you want to extinguish. Offer more control as a reinforcer for choosing an appropriate behavior & do not allow the other behavior choices to be reinforced with any more control going to the child
  • Whenever you see your child use an inappropriate behavior, consider him in an extinction situation until he makes a more appropriate choice (use prompts if necessary)
  • Behavior that is socially mediated that is meant to avoid future demands or to retain current status quo of a relationship, are reinforced by their ability to maintain dominance or access to greater choice.
  • Adeptness at countercontrolling makes the parents believe that their child NEEDS these demands to be met in order for them to function properly
  • Do not let "I don't care" behavior stop your use of extinction
  • To combat this a child may begin to develop sophisticated & subtle ways to remain in control with inappropriate behavior. The more an attempt is made to take a choice away from the child, the MORE motivated and skilled be becomes at countercontrol
  • By accommodating the child's behavior & demands the parents create an even larger, ever increasing compliance problem. Most parents engage in this because it offers immediate relief
  • Capture and contrive motivation, but avoid the trap of trying to convince your child that something is motivating
  • Try to camouflage attempts to get your child to enjoy new things
  • Always look after the safety of other students and siblings

Countercontrol

  • Countercontrol: human operant behavior that occurs in response to social aversive control
  • Children who demonstrate more than one purpose for behavior are strongly motivated by the control they can have over others in their environment and maintain control through countercontrol behavior
  • Escape or attention behavior occurs purely as a means to an end- that end is the foal of maintaining access to control
  • These children are motivated to maintain dominance in an interaction or relationship.
  • "Access of choice" is a reinforcer for them

Control,Countercontrol & Controlling Behavior

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