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Recording incidents

Hello,
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post questions but there's something I've been thinking about for a while and I'd appreciate your thoughts!
How do you feel when someone asks you to start recording your son's/daughter's incidents of "challenging behaviour" at home?
My job is to understand why people behave in a certain way but unfortunately, sometimes, I find it quite hard to capture and get a clear picture of behaviours at home. This is when I ask parents to record any incidents they have at home. I give a particular form (based on ABC model, Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence) and ask them to complete it once an incident has occurred. I do understand that if your son/daughter has just been aggressive towards others or has been self-injuring, the last thing you want is to put this in paper.
However, this is an invaluable tool for our assessment and I'm struggling to help people understand how important this is. I appreciate though, how hectic a typical household might be and completing this form might be time consuming.
I was wondering if anyone would like to share their experience of recording incidents at home. Was there anything particular that you didn't like about it? Anything that you found helpful and made it easier for you?
Thank you all
Gina
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post questions but there's something I've been thinking about for a while and I'd appreciate your thoughts!
How do you feel when someone asks you to start recording your son's/daughter's incidents of "challenging behaviour" at home?
My job is to understand why people behave in a certain way but unfortunately, sometimes, I find it quite hard to capture and get a clear picture of behaviours at home. This is when I ask parents to record any incidents they have at home. I give a particular form (based on ABC model, Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence) and ask them to complete it once an incident has occurred. I do understand that if your son/daughter has just been aggressive towards others or has been self-injuring, the last thing you want is to put this in paper.
However, this is an invaluable tool for our assessment and I'm struggling to help people understand how important this is. I appreciate though, how hectic a typical household might be and completing this form might be time consuming.
I was wondering if anyone would like to share their experience of recording incidents at home. Was there anything particular that you didn't like about it? Anything that you found helpful and made it easier for you?
Thank you all
Gina
Replies
This is exactly why we ask people to record incidents; we analyse them and see if there is a pattern of behaviour, triggers, what the person gets, etc.
A note app for a phone is an excellent idea!! I will definitely try to work on it and maybe design a short template/doc that people can access from their phone! Many thanks!