Help me make goals and objectives for behavioral teenage boys who are in residen!
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teenagers in state custody that have behavioral problems and I need help making goals and objectives for them
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They will need to make the goals for themselves! You can suggest them, but unless they take it to heart because you are so passionate about it, (and this could take a while) none of your concern will amount to anything.
Good starting goals for them would be:
-taking medication
- making their bed
- getting to shave
- calling friends
-reading a magazine article
But you've probably exhuasted these.
If you have them in some kind of home, which it sounds like you do, then make some things for them to do. Require them to grow flowers (buy inexpensive bulbs) or some vegetables. Make them have their own patches that they are responsible, and let there be a healthy competition between them with a reward for the healthiest, best-tasting fruit, or the best, largest blossoms. Growing things is a good therapy, and will induce a sense of pride in them. They'll hate it at first (people always want more freedom than they have) but eventually they'll grow to love the plants. Maybe you can even let them sell some of the produce to a farmer's market and keep the money for themselves, or something like that.
I would reccomend reading a story outloud to them every day. Reading is a good medicine, according to Christopher Morley in "The Haunted Bookshop".
At first they might hate it, but eventually they'll get into it! Try T. A. Barron's The Lost Years of Merlin, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Swiss Family Robinson.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is tedious at first, but the morals are really interesting, and they'll like the horror of it all. It's a classic, and it's interesting. Something that everyone wishes they've read, if they haven't, and they've probably seen movies about it which will entice the interests.
The Lost Years of Merlin covers alot of the feelings that they are dealing with -- resentment, anger, deppression, abandonment. But Merlin finds his identity, and self-worth, and surpasses his expectations of himself.
I would also reccomend that you read to yourself "Jo's Boys" by Louisa May Alcott. It's the story of a woman who has a boy's boarding school in the 1800's, but it's a classic, and will encourage you as she had to deal with problems even then. Some of the problems will be different, but it will encourage you.
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i am surely not qualified for this, but i hope this'll help.
we could start by showing them inspirational movies, self improvement and so on. but not some documentaries. rather star studded movies which entertain them and direct them with a msg at the same time. for eg." good will hunting, beautiful mind etc."
hopefully this will arouse their dreams, aspirations which they begin sharing with u.
keep up the good work
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