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The Child Mind Institute’s behavior service provides support to elementary school educators and caregivers with students in grades K-3 struggling with behavior and emotion regulation. Services include small-group instruction to help children learn social and emotional skills, individual student behavior plans, weekly teacher consultation and student observation, and family education. There may be between five and six students in each group, and groups are led by a Child Mind Institute clinician.
Classroom teachers should identify students for the program based on students’ needs, their own desire to consult with a Child Mind Institute clinician, and parental engagement. Some signs that a student may benefit from participating may be that the child:
Children referred for the program will be screened by Child Mind Institute staff to ensure appropriateness for the intervention. Please note that students who display frequent or severe aggression, property destruction, or elopement may not be a good fit for the small-group setting.
The Child Mind Institute offers an 8-week, school-based behavioral and emotional skills group for children in grades K-3. The program is informed by the Incredible Years®, an evidence-based, small-group program targeting social-emotional learning, emotion regulation, and problem solving. Integral to the success of this group is weekly caregiver and teacher engagement to promote positive behaviors and skills use at home and at school. The group curriculum covers the following topics:
Students will get to know other group members and identify and practice behaviors that will help them be successful in the group and in school.
Students will learn basic feelings vocabulary and practice identifying feelings in themselves and others. Students will learn that we can feel many different feelings at once, and that people can feel differently about the same situation.
Students will learn strategies to manage big and uncomfortable feelings. The strategies include deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and imagining a calm or happy place.
Students will learn steps for social problem solving. They will learn to identify the problem, brainstorm solutions, and select a solution that will lead to good consequences. Students will build a bank of appropriate solutions to common peer problems.
Students will learn that sometimes we are feeling too angry to solve a problem and we need to manage feelings of anger before acting. Students will learn to go into their turtle shells, where they can use the relaxation strategies that they have learned to help them calm down.
Students will learn how to be good team players at home and at school. They will learn and practice behaviors such as sharing, helping, taking turns, compromising, giving compliments, and being flexible.
Students will learn important skills for communicating with others, including how to introduce themselves, ask questions about a peer’s interests, show interest in what the other person is saying, and take turns in the conversation
Students will celebrate their accomplishments in the group and create books that they can take home which summarize all the skills learned in the program
In addition to Detective Club, the behavior service intervention includes a teacher and caregiver component.
A behavior service clinician will provide in-vivo support to the teachers of the Detective Club students in applying behavior management strategies in their classrooms. This collaborative and supportive coaching format runs simultaneously to the weeks of Detective Club. For example, teacher coaching may follow this format:
A behavior team clinician will provide four caregiver meeting opportunities throughout the Detective Club intervention. The content of each meeting will be the following:
The clinician will call to check in and ask caregivers in the group to complete forms to help measure progress.
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