First Example of Audio, Strength Based Methods [9:17]

Notice that the audio player is located at the bottom of this webpage, or at the end of the text. You may play the audio by clicking on the start button in the playback control bar.

The Lessons are the main content of this resource. The Lessons are narrated, graphically animated, web-based interactive presentations, designed to present an academically correct, professionally designed Lesson: defining, describing, and explaining the concepts identified by the Lesson title.

The Lessons are based on the table: Understanding Purpose: The Goals of Child/Teen Misbehavior by Steven A. Maybell, Ph.D., who is the Clinical Director of a university counseling center in Seattle, Washington. The Lessons also present ideas and suggestions for “how to” skills, how to apply the ideas presented in the Lessons, which I hope will become immediate, effective, parenting skills for you.

Additionally, the Lessons may have a pre-test and/or a post-test, which is designed to enhance the student’s learning. The goal of any test, or evaluation, is to either prepare the student for learning, or to measure how much the student has learned , not to “beat the student,” or to “show the student”
what s/he doesn’t know. Such tests or evaluations that try to “trick” the student are not “best practice,” and some educational professionals would say are even fraudulent. I, as an instructional designer/technologist, agree.

The discipline of Education, Training, and Rehabilitation is about enhancing peoples’ lives, not implementing a test to learn what a student doesn’t know. Tests and Evaluations are more effective if designed to show what the student has learned and what the student can now do, when compared to what the student could do at the beginning of a class or a course. Students who use educational material that is designed with the “best practice of Instructional Design” will likely show a higher success rate when compared to material that is not designed for increasing the actual skills of the student.

This resource presents material with the expectation that the adult learner is self-motivated, willing to learn, eager to receive challenging ideas, and eager to practice parenting skills with a parent educator, so to enhance their personal ability as a parent. Each time a parent uses this resource, my goal is that the parent will feel encouraged and strengthened in their role and abilities. As the designer of this resource, I want you to look forward to the next Lesson.

The Audio clip is presented as the second resource in the outline list of materials. The Audio is designed to highlight key points, or to provide
opportunities for more detailed information. I, or Dr. Steve Maybell, or an invited guest, may present key ideas to further explain or re-iterate the concepts presented in The Lessons

The Video clip is presented as the third resource in the list of materials. The Video clips are “real-life,” unscripted, non-rehearsed parent-child interaction, or conversation between a parent educator and a family member. The video clips are priceless, as the authenticity of the parent-child interaction and the learning process of the parent is “captured” by the lens of the camera. The richness, simplicity, or even the complexity, of what a mental health professional will be able to highlight and teach, for a parent who is seeking professional counsel and/or rehabilitation for their child, is limited only by this mental health professional’s knowledge and experience in counseling/rehabilitation theory and practice.

Each video is designed with multiple learning aids to assist the parent in noticing key ideas and/or skills. Descriptive or “teaching text” is presented either before the video on the browser screen, or as part of the video clip itself, as an introduction, or even as an overlay on the video clip, pinpointing cognitions, behaviors, feelings, and/or attitudes.

Additional design is currently in production with the video clips, so to enhance even further the learning experience for the parent, such as implementing programming language within the creation of the video clip itself, so key points in a clip will have cue points, and/or labels, allowing the user of this interactive resource to view Introduction Page, Dad Re-Acting with Cue Point Label Test.

Let me comment on the phrase and title, Effective Parenting Methods . This phrase and the title comes from the table Understanding Purpose: The Goals of Child/Teen Misbehavior , which is designed by Dr. Steve Maybell. In using this phrase, neither I, nor Dr. Maybell, want to convey as if we are presenting a unique method that is only known by us. Quite the contrary. The material, the ideas, the suggestions that are presented in Dr. Maybell’s table, and the ideas and the suggestions presented in this interactive resource are based upon, and synthesized from research, the majority of which can be found in professional journal articles, text books, and the primary sources of past researchers, such as Dr. Alfred Adler, Dr. Rudolf Driekers, and Dr. Murray Bowen, for example. While Dr. Maybell has written a doctoral dissertation, developing his own method of psycho-therapy, published books on parent education, and while I have written a master’s thesis on complex cognitive skills in technical training, specifically in the mental health field, please don’t think that we are presenting any information that is esoteric–that we claim to have any unique knowledge that can only be found within the bounds of this website. Not the case, and we are the first to acknowledge this fact, even in print as you will see.

What we do offer, however, is our love for learning, and our passion for implementing best practices as practitioners in our respective fields. Effective Parenting Methods is simply what these methods are: effective parenting methods, documented by years of research. Of course, there are many others who are publishing parent education resources who can share these same ideas and principles. What we do believe is unique is our wish and desire to share with you as much information as we can, information that is well-documented research. We hope that the information that we share and the media selections we implement within this website do convey effective parenting methods in an insightful manner, so the material is beneficial for you. This website, www.understandingmisbehavior.com, is designed and dedicated to being an educational resource, first and foremost, not a commercial venture, where we are trying to make a dollar, or lots of dollars, by claiming to have any unique, esoteric method. What is unique, we think, is the design and the presentation of material, and our commitment to provide helpful and useful information. We hope this resource is helpful to you, and that you learn these Effective Parenting Methods , so you feel more confident and capable in your ongoing task as a parent. As Dr. Maybell states in his introductory video clip, I also say, “Welcome.”