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1. CHAPTER 13:
Use the Decision-Making Model
of Child Guidance
Guidance of Young Children
Ninth Edition
Marian Marion
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Decision-Making Model of
Child Guidance

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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