Barry Belvins spoke to Lon Woodbury and Elizabeth McGhee about the many benefits of using positive peer culture on a weekly radio show hosted on L.A. Talk Radio. Barry explained how other teens are considered to be a part of the community and help their fellow teens overcome behavioral problems. He believed that forming a community was essential to the entire healing process. In fact, PPC was more effective than rule-based residential programs.
The host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, Lon Woodbury, is an Independent Educational Consultant and publishes the highly informative Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-Host Elizabeth McGhee, the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico, has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with adolescents.
Guest Biography
Barry Blevins is the Executive Director at High Frontier, located in West Texas. He has been with the private, co-ed residential treatment center for 27 years. Barry graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration and is a licensed child care administrator in the State of Texas.
Although Counter-intuitive, Using Positive Peer Culture Works Well
The guest of the radio show talked how using PPC worked much better than the methods most therapeutic boarding schools were using, including the traditional peer pressure process. He strongly believed that behavioral rules could become highly unproductive. They simply distracted from the emotional healing process instead of directly working on them. In fact, he went so far as to say that he considered these rules were frequently used to mask a behavior. Too many rules was a process that avoided problems. Using PPC, it was actually much easier to get to the root of the problem.
PPC was all about students reminding each other to stick to their agreements, and this approach took the burden off the staff, who were now no longer involved in a power struggle. This entire process made each students feel empowered, feeling as if they had control and could make sound choices, which was a huge relief from feeling imposed upon by an outside authority. Students not only understood their own acting-out behavior much better when their fellow students intervened, but, in this therapeutic models, staff only played a peripheral role, and they could facilitate discussion s rather play the role of authoritarian who were there to coerce, warn, and punish.
Since co-host Liz McGhee had actually worked for Barry for a number of years, she joined in the discussion on using positive peer culture by talking about students had to realize that they were there to share their concern for their peers rather than to try to control them.
The host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, Lon Woodbury, is an Independent Educational Consultant and publishes the highly informative Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-Host Elizabeth McGhee, the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico, has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with adolescents.
Guest Biography
Barry Blevins is the Executive Director at High Frontier, located in West Texas. He has been with the private, co-ed residential treatment center for 27 years. Barry graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration and is a licensed child care administrator in the State of Texas.
Although Counter-intuitive, Using Positive Peer Culture Works Well
The guest of the radio show talked how using PPC worked much better than the methods most therapeutic boarding schools were using, including the traditional peer pressure process. He strongly believed that behavioral rules could become highly unproductive. They simply distracted from the emotional healing process instead of directly working on them. In fact, he went so far as to say that he considered these rules were frequently used to mask a behavior. Too many rules was a process that avoided problems. Using PPC, it was actually much easier to get to the root of the problem.
PPC was all about students reminding each other to stick to their agreements, and this approach took the burden off the staff, who were now no longer involved in a power struggle. This entire process made each students feel empowered, feeling as if they had control and could make sound choices, which was a huge relief from feeling imposed upon by an outside authority. Students not only understood their own acting-out behavior much better when their fellow students intervened, but, in this therapeutic models, staff only played a peripheral role, and they could facilitate discussion s rather play the role of authoritarian who were there to coerce, warn, and punish.
Since co-host Liz McGhee had actually worked for Barry for a number of years, she joined in the discussion on using positive peer culture by talking about students had to realize that they were there to share their concern for their peers rather than to try to control them.
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Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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