What is Behavioral Coaching and How Can it Help You?"
Behavioral coaching comes from an emerging new mental health support profession called behavioral consultation. Behavioral consultation in the field of mental health services is a new phenomenon which is to date both ill defined and misunderstood. Behavioral consultants hold a variety of different job titles and offer a variety of different services. Whether you are called a Behavioral Specialist, Behavioral Health Technician or Behavioral Coach, a common element of the behavioral consultant is the collaborative relationship focused on positive behavioral growth.
Independence Behavioral Coaching (IBC) chose the title “behavioral coach” to emphasize the need for parent and teacher support and guidance to help them help their children.
IBC believes that the key component to supporting children is through supporting and strengthening the relationships between child and adult so as to better allow the adult coach the child in ways that can best set them up for success.
Our relationships to one another provide the foundation for all behavioral growth. Growing research is showing that building strong secure relationships can help with over 80% of behavior problems and with the 20% of children that need more, building relationships can minimize the need for additional support services like counseling and medication.
The key to effective behavioral coaching lies in creating opportunities for relationship development. Caregivers in general, whether they are parents, relatives, foster parents or even teachers sometimes need extra support and guidance in relationship development.
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