Using Behavior Interventions to Build Self-Regulation

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Behavioral Intervention

The ability to self-regulate is not innate, rather youth learn to understand their emotions and practice managing their behavior with guidance from the caring adults in their lives.
Behavior management is a critical component of youth work, and effective interventions are not a one-size-fits-all approach.
You can use behavior interventions with youth to help them learn how to self-regulate while also building a relationship, and that relationship will play a huge role in your interventions over time.

Your Learning Objectives

Incorporate behavior intervention strategies into the plan for helping youth learn to self-regulate
Develop a repertoire of behavior interventions that range from “ignoring” to “interfering”
Learn how to match the appropriate behavior intervention with the level of dysregulation and the temperament of the youth
Develop your personal style of behavior management as a youth worker and better understand the role your relationship plays in all behavior intervention
Be able to apply behavior intervention principles to groups, and understand the importance of managing behavior norms in a group setting

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

David Wilmes has over 30 years of experience in the field of early intervention with youth whose behavior puts them at risk for being criminalized, pathologized or ostracized from the critical community-based resources that promote healthy youth development. Over that time period, he has authored numerous books, papers, curricula, and evaluation tools used by a wide range of professionals, parents, and other adults to help them increase their capacity to engage youth with challenging behaviors.

While Mr. Wilmes consults with and has worked with many treatment and correctional facilities, his most fundamental belief is that real growth and resilience primarily happens in the community and usually within the context of family, neighborhood, and school. Therefore, in the past decade he spends most of his professional energy working with schools, libraries, recreation centers, police departments, community activists/volunteers, tutoring and mentoring groups, and other community groups.

Mr. Wilmes received his undergraduate degree from Metro State University, and received his Master of Arts degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN.