Time-out (parenting)

With the time - out technique is a method of behavior therapy for children and adolescents. The method is based on operant conditioning. Children and young people are when they show undesirable behavior, for up to 15 minutes of as many stimuli isolated. It's about to escape by social and communicative exclusion, any amplifiers charms of misconduct. As an amplifier charms charms are to denote that promote the unwanted behavior, such as eye contact, smile at the behavior, charming overflowing environment ( particularly in people with autism, etc.).

The remarkable person is taken out of its own environment, and it is abruptly stopped any (positive or negative ) social and communicative contact. The person under care should be placed in a low-stimulus environment, without having access to other amps or communication partners.

This " time out" should not be regarded as locking up. Rather, it is a matter of giving to the person handling the opportunity to rediscover themselves and to reflect on their behavior and analyze.

The time- out technique is used primarily for conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörungen application.

In principle, it should be noted that the method among depressed, suicidal and vulnerable people who are prone to self-harm and mental disorders (eg borderline personality disorder ), may not apply. In the application of the method is to pay attention to the non- scary environment. In some youth welfare and mental health services specifically time-out rooms are available, which are non-irritant according to the standards established and particularly for the use of time- out procedure own.

The method was also used by educators who are in public, for example, of graduate teacher Catherine Hall Frank ( in The Super Nanny ), which they in their work in the TV show not as a " time-out " method, but as a "silent stairs ", " quiet chair " or similar designated. However, the method was applied bound format for a short time. Catherine Hall Frank distanced himself now clear of the so-called Triple -P program, which was originally adapted from the England consignment basis and in the framework finds the time- out technique use.

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