Apply Your Knowledge: Use the Decision-Making Model of Child Guidance

1. Guidance of Young Children
Tenth Edition
Chapter 13
Apply Your Knowledge:
Use the Decision-Making
Model of Child Guidance
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Learning Objectives
• Explain the major features of the decision-making model
of child guidance.
• Use the decision-making model in everyday discipline
encounters and with challenging behavior.
• Use the decision-making model to make contextual
changes and to change an adult’s practices.
• Use the decision-making model to change the context
and change the teacher’s own practices.

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Decision Making Model of Child Guidance
• Process used to construct decisions abut how to handle a
variety of guidance issues with children
• Focuses on arriving at a developmentally appropriate
solutions in logical, clearheaded ways

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Decision-Making Model: Requirements
• Knowledge about guiding children
• Skills to use that knowledge
• Respect for all families

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Aim to Use Different Approaches
• Selecting what appears to be best from several different
methods and theories
• Different children, different families call for an eclectic
approach (using different strategies suited to the child or
family)

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Steps in the Decision-Making Model
• Observing
• Decision making
• Acting
• Reflecting

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Use the Decision-Making Model
• In everyday discipline encounters
• With more difficult behavior
• For contextual issues, matter related to the setting
– In situations in which teachers must change their own
practices

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Deciding About Referring a Child and
Family for Outside Help

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Teachers Reflect
• Teachers occasionally discover that they do not have the
knowledge or skills needed to help a specific child
• A teacher would then decide that he needs to refer a child
or family to outside services for help

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Typical Situations Indicating That Outside
Services Might Be Needed
• Child abuse and neglect
– Problem behaviors beyond the expertise of the
teacher
• Medical issue
• Family system challenge
• Extremely challenging behavior continues

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Coming Full Circle: What the Decision-
Making Model Means for Children

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What the Decision-Making Model Means
for Children
• Enables children to:
– Feel safe and secure
– Develop healthy self-esteem and a strong moral compass
– Honor and respect themselves and others
– Develop healthy self-control
– Learn how to deal with a variety of stressors
– Understand and deal effectively with a variety of feelings
– Walk a mile in another person’s shoes
– Be cooperative, helpful, and generous
– Learn when to be assertive
– Become self-responsible
– Become compassionate and caring individuals

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