To study behavior modification of school children through parental counselling

Pages: 859-862
Shabnam Khan (Counsellor and Teacher, Happy Feet School, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)
Shabahat Bano (Career Planning Centre, Abdullah Womens college, Aligarh, UP)

The behavior of the parents has direct effect on the children’s psychological growth and behaviour. Parents are varied in their rearing practice and frequently unpredictable. Sometimes their interactions with children are tinged with odd combinations of beliefs such as personal prejudice, emotional regards, tradition and rule of thumb procedures. According to psychoanalytic theory social value and controls are largely interiorized on the basis of early parent-child interactions. Parents rear their children in the same way that they were reared by their parents. The reward with affection and privilege similar behaviours, punish with rejection and threats the same kind of misbehaviours for which they were chastised. This cultural drift is characteristically in the direction of the prevailing value of the general community with its gradual assimilation of new ideas, technology inventions and the shifting art. When the parents do not deal with their children in a proper way the children may develop internalizing and externalizing disorders, here we focus on externalizing disorders which includes disorders with behaviour that are disruptive and often aggressive. A high level of externalizing behaviour is an obvious indication of a potential problem. Children who do not pay attention, seems exceptionally active, behave aggressively, break rules and cause significant harm to other people and their property are need special concern and proper care of their parents and caretakers. The aim of the current study was to focus on how parental counselling can be helpful in dealing with externalizing behaviour of the child. So parents need special training and counselling to handle such type of children.