Challenging behaviours

Challenging behaviours in children are those behaviours that overwhelm your capacity to cope. These can directly influence their quality of life, their capacity to learn and can cause enormous amounts of stress for their parents and family.  This webinar is designed to assist parents, teachers, health professionals and caregivers who work and live with children who display problem behaviours. Detailed instructions are provided to allow the participant, to identify and analyse problem behaviours, and understand why a child engages in an inappropriate behaviour. You will learn how to develop a behaviour modification plan to decrease challenging behaviours.  Proactive and reactive strategies are outlined to specifically target problem behaviours.  Video footage and case examples are utilised throughout to illustrate the skills presented.

Workshop Outline: 

• Identifying challenging behaviours in the child
• Collect information about the behaviour
• Understand the function of the behaviour
• Physiological and environmental factors that influence behaviour
• implementing a behaviour plan
• Implementing proactive and reactive strategies
• Video footage and Case examples

Developed and recorded by Dr Jacques Duff and Helen Salter
Duration 1 hour 45 minutes

Completion of this course does not confer professional registration or qualification. Participants who are not registered health practitioners should not use these techniques in a clinical or therapeutic capacity without supervision by a registered professional.

Updated on 03/03/2026 by Dr Jacques Duff- BA Psych; Grad Dip Applied Psychology PhD; MAPS
Reviewed on: 05/03/2026 by: Bernard Ferriere- Clinical Psychologist; BA; Grad Dip Applied Psychology; Dip Clinical Hypnosis; MAPS