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With a near 100% success rate
Warwick successfully changes the behaviours listed below
working exclusively with the parents
(since the children cannot change them themselves)

This is because all "Bad" Behaviour is "interactional" in other words
maintained by the parents responses to it


Since the responses of the parents conform to a pattern
they create children with the following
predictable spectrum of behaviour
Children who

  • often get into a temper if they are not getting their own way
  • are defiant
  • are strong-willed tend to wear you down
  • seem not to be able to understand reasons or logical explanations
  • often won't listen to you or talk over you when you are trying explain
  • find it difficult or impossible to lose
  • tend to blame others for even small disappointments
  • moody - often complaining that parents are "unfair"

    when you attempt to punish them they may
  • say they  "don't care"
  • threaten a temper tantrum or other retaliation
  • try to make you feel guilty

    They may also
  • appear to be selfish
  • tend to argue with or be spiteful to brothers or sisters
  • tend to be spiteful to you, swear at you, or say hurtful things
  • tend to lie, or take without permission (steal)
  • tend to whine or complain
  • often need a lot of reassurance and sometimes
  • have tendency to demand affection when they don't deserve it
  • occasionally still be sleeping in their parent's bed

    Interactive behaviour problems usually (but do not always) effect relationships outside the home when they do

    they
  • tend not to have or not keep friends
    or tend to have younger (or much older) friends
    or friends they can dominate
  • may not have problems at school but when they do
    may have problems with peers at break times
  • may take a strong dislike and get in trouble with
    new or particular teachers
These characteristics always mean that

  • the child is extremely powerful within the family with a
    strong will that is overpowering
  • but has very low self-esteem and is usually very unhappy
    much of the time
Warwick is almost always successful but the speed/ease of change can (strangely) often be in reverse proportion to the difficulty because:-

the more distress the behaviour causes - the more committed
the parents are to what needs to be done the quicker/easier it is
for Warwick to help you change the behaviour.

The intervention usually lasts around 10 weeks but can be shorter or longer, he works until the job is done.


Warwick also works with ADHD Children

- Look at the high correlation of these "Symptoms" (below)
with the behaviour of my clients children (above) and
the significant percentage of "ordinary" children
this study says have these same behaviours -

Symptom

Argues with adults
Blames others for own mistakes
Acts touchy or easily annoyed
Swears
Lies
Stealing (not involving threats)
 		   ADHD Children (%)

                72
                66
                71
                40
                49
                50
 		     Typical Children (%)

              21
              17
              20
              6
              5
              7
[Barkley RA, Fischer M, et al. The Adolescent outcome: An 8-year prospective follow up. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 546-557.]