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Treatment Options
Updated on Friday, August 24, 2007
Unlike other treatment options, a licensed behavior analyst can provide you with answers to each one of the following questions:
- What is the reason for my child’s “lack of motivation”?
- Why has nothing I have done in the past worked?
- Is his “lack of motivation” due to a skill deficit or disorder?
Wondering how? Behavior analysts use a variety of assessment tools to help them understand why your child behaves as he or she does. Instead of just masking the underlying cause of the problem, analysts will identify which skills your child needs further development as well as those environmental varaibles that influence the behavior. They then develop measurable intervention plans that specifically addresses your child’s needs. The intervention strategies will answer questions, such as:
- How do I motivate my child to do X?
- How do I know that the intervention will work?
- How do I get his motivation to maintain over time?
- How do I get my child to demonstrate motivation with others?
Through on going data collection the analyst is able to ensure the plan’s success from start to finish. Programs to address motivation problems that involve behavior modification techniques are fail proof if developed by a professional and carried out consistently by program implementers. The reason for their success is that behavior modification programs make those directly involved with the child the central change agents. Analysts realize that if change is to be lasting, then those that care for the child on a daily basis must be the ones to make the change.
