Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour by Murray Irwin

Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour by Murray Irwin

If you find yourself dealing with unacceptable behaviour then Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour can help. By following the six BECOME steps of Behaviour, Emergency, Context, Options, Myself and Enact, you will be able to:

• Pin-point what the behaviour is
• Explore when and why it occurs
• Work out how to encourage change.

The authors practical BECOME process gives you a logical and consistent way of approaching problem behaviours. With case studies demonstrating how to put these steps into practice, Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour includes:

• 14 principles on how to approach difficult situations
• 13 tools to help understand the problem
• 10 response styles
• 20 effective strategies to use.

There is now no excuse to use the same ineffective response time after time. If you work with people, this book will BECOME your guide to successfully encourage appropriate behaviour.
About the Author
Murray Irwin is a freelance outdoor educator and adventure therapy group-leader with 13 years experience. For five years he worked with at-risk youth and spent three years designing and delivering award winning sustainability behaviour change programs.
The Benefits
Using the six steps:

• creates a structure that helps give you a sense that you have control of the situation
• helps you maintain a calm and consistent approach even when your really emotional
• sheds light on the situation in a fair and unbiased way
• helps come up with new ideas and possibilities to explore as you address each step
• allows you to quickly and simply analyse situations.

Having the principles to follow:

• helps you avoid pitfalls
• gives you important insights
• builds your self confidence to handle situations effectively.

Having a range of tools to choose from:

• can change the way you see peoples behaviour
• reveals other possibilities and perspectives
• helps you use and role model assertive behaviour
• builds your knowledge and understanding about the behaviour.

Providing a range of possible strategies:

• allows you to create new ways of dealing with issues
• empowers you by giving you more response choices
• gives you powerful and proven options for taking charge of situations.

Murray Irwin is an outdoor educator and adventure therapy group leader with over 14 years of experience. For five years he worked with at-risk youths and spent three years designing and delivering award-winning sustainability behaviour change programs. He currently co-ordinates psychosocial programs for people living with a mental illness. Murray's first career was in commercial finance. To pursue his love of the outdoors he completing a Diploma of Recreation and has since spent most of the past 14 years working with young people as a group leader, youth worker and educator. As an outdoor educator Murray led week-long bushwalking, rafting and canoeing expeditions with school groups, teaching outdoors skills along with environmental awareness, leadership and personal development. He has worked for the Outdoor Education Group, Evolve and Geelong Grammar - Timbertop. Fascinated by the therapeutic aspects of outdoor adventure led Murray to work with at-risk youth. The work was intense: a remote cattle property in central Queensland was the base for Youth Enterprise Trust's 14-day residential program. Typo Station's 20-day residential program including a 9-day hike in remote areas of Victoria, of which Murray is a veteran of many expeditions. Spending days on end with groups of adolescents confronting issues was rewarding but challenging. Murray also worked for the Brotherhood of St Lawrence, twice being a team leader for 6-month long workplace skills training programs for young adults. At Environment Victoria, a not-for-profit organisation, he facilitated behaviour change programs. Working with local communities and groups, he helped promote behaviours that reduced water and energy use along with teaching applied learning certificate students' leadership skills and sustainable behaviours. Before leaving Environment Victoria, Murray oversaw all of their community education and behaviour change programs. His first book Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour: A Six-Step Approach provides a training framework in dealing with difficult behaviour. Murray currently divides his time between writing, running his training company and being a part-time psychosocial and respite programs coordinator that promotes wellness for those living with a mental illness. When not outdoors hiking or paddling a river, Murray enjoys reading non- fiction and planning treks to do when he next returns to Nepal. He currently lives in Melbourne.

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ISBN 13	9780987227805
ISBN 10	0987227807
Title	Encouraging Appropriate Behaviour
Author	Murray Irwin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Publish Me
Year published	2012-04-01
Number of pages	168
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.