Saturday, September 27, 2003

A Memo to the Staff at the Center

Sister Tess and I talked briefly about distributing the minutes of the Behavioral Management/Human Rights Committee.  Understanding these minutes, or what the minutes represent of the meeting may better aid our work with the individuals.

Please find in this package a client code sheet and four sets of minutes representing a one year period of time. 

A behavioral concept that Dr. D of the committee shared with the committee is the idea of doing reframing work with the individuals. This concept suggests that the individuals may become more willing and able participants of daily life if they can recognize and respond to our more healthy behaviors and attitudes.  

If the individuals choose to imitate our positivism, the more needy behavioral displays such as attention seeking and avoidance of duties will abate. This is because you will have nourished their God given, but budding sense of self dignity and worth as a human being.  This is a real need of the individuals we serve, and is one of the primary goals of our program. 

We are here to help and assist as best we can and to the extent in which the individuals come to trust us. Part of this reframing work is then more simply summarized as recognizing and responding to our own and others' positive and supportive self patterns. 

Please ask for help from individuals of the committee if you need more assistance in comprehending behavioral management and/or human rights concepts or in interpretation of the scenarios sketched in the meeting minutes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

great stuff going on here...

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