Managing behavioural issues is a major role of a psychologist. Working of behaviours creatively can help ease the task and makes learning fun! Narrative therapy helps the client share their stories while principles of behaviour therapy helps us to work in a more defined manner. Working on maladaptive behaviours using the two can do wonders in schools, colleges and in your workplace!

1. THE
PRUNING
MANAGING DAILY BEHAVIOURAL ISSUES CREATIVELY
“Nurture what you want to grow, prune to grow it better”
-Feba Percy Paul
Psychologist {Gold Medalist}
July 20’19
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2. Why behaviour?
“12-year-old boy from India dies inToronto, mother says he was bullied.”
|TNN | Updated: Jul 15, 2019, 22:40 IST
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/12-year-old-boy-from-india-dies-in-toronto-mother-says-he-was-
bullied/articleshow/70220478.cms
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3. Why behaviour?
Behaviour is an external reaction to the environment.
Other aspects of psychology, such as emotions, thoughts, and mental processes
don’t fall here.
If we can use behavioral psychology to help us predict how humans behave, we can
build better habits, create better products, and develop better communities.
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4. AIM
Increase an individuals
skill
Decrease behavioural
issues
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5. WHAT DOES NOTWORK
•Removing the person/yelling/screaming/punishing/hitting.
Example.
In school : Acts as a vent out for teachers and an escape for students
AtWorkplace: Avoiding a task becomes easy.
- Cool to be punished
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6. WHAT DOES NOTWORK
•Expecting a behavior when it is not taught.
Example.
Young adults : Making blade cuts ‘feels’ good.
AtWorkplace: Bullying an employee
-The Math Sum
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7. WHAT DOES NOTWORK
•Pills
Without therapy pills act as a bandage for a lifetime .
Side effects need another pill!
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8. WHAT DOES NOTWORK
•Thinking we can handle it alone.
Example.
With children : High level of burnout.
AtWorkplace : Personal grudges develop
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9. The case of the left alone OCD
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10. WHATWORKS
Knowing that every behavior has a reason.
Functional Analysis Model
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Antecedent Behaviour Consequence

11. WHATWORKS
• Be detectives.
“What is the FUNTION of this behaviour?”
Rather than thinking about what is the FORM
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12. Example of a BSP
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/266064290455810889/?autologin=true

13. How do we teach a behaviour?
•Reinforce the behaviours you want.
Prompt it.
Helps lessen errors and increases the chances to make the right
behaviour often.
Follow it up with a reinforcement.
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14. Let us try!
• Clap
• Swim
• Cook
• Snap your fingers
• Jump
• Turn around
• Wave
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15. How do we teach a behaviour?
Reinforcers
Kinds
Natural Arbitrary
Types
Social Tangible Edible
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16. How do we teach behaviour?
Replace the behaviours you don’t want.
Externalize it.
• A person with a problematic behaviour expresses how he
struggles with or has overcome it.
• Helpers can express by educating about what is the right
behaviour.
Draw/Paint Play sports
Add Music
Dramatize Blog
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17. What is your story?
• Setting : Outside a coffee shop
• Characters : A crow
A dog
You
Beginning
You walk into the café after college, the crow has been watching you since
you left home for college today.The dog asks the crow, “What happened to
her/him?”.
The crow replies….
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18. What is your story?
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Characters Setting
Plot | Problems
Solutions |
Conclusions
Story Map

19. NARRATIVE BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS
Prioritize
Gather information
as a team
Develop
hypotheses on why
the behaviour
occurs
Develop a plan
Implement &
Evaluate
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20. Features of Narrative Behavioural Analysis
Non-
blaming
Client is
the
expert
Is
respectful
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21. Thank you
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