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Proactive responses to oppositional behaviours in out-of-home care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Stephen Larmar  and
Julie Clark
Stephen Larmar
Affiliation:
School of Human Services, Griffith University, Logan Campus, University Drive, Meadowbrook, Qld 4131 Email: s.larmar@griffith.edu.au
Julie Clark
Affiliation:
School of Human Services, Griffith University, Logan Campus Email: j.clark@griffith.edu.au
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Abstract

Children and young people placed in out-of-home care are often extremely vulnerable and can require intensive support. Their carers are often faced with significant challenges in effectively responding to their individual needs. This paper is the first in a series of four aimed at supporting carers to make effective responses to challenging behaviours displayed by children and young people in out-of-home care. This paper considers factors that influence an individual child or young person's behaviour as a means of encouraging proactive responses by carers that will address individual need. The series of papers is informed by Edelbrock's (1985) work identifying four clusters of challenging behaviours, with each paper examining one of these clusters. This first paper has a focus on oppositional behaviours. Ensuing papers will examine offensive behaviours, aggressive behaviours and delinquent behaviours respectively.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , 2009 , pp. 30 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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