Behaviors Sentence Examples

I think your cat is still playing out those behaviors in your kitchen.

Many of these problems are due to human behaviors.

We must confront Claudia before she continues to exhibit these despicable behaviors.

Such studies avoid a global determinism which emerges from mythic thinking and magic behaviors.

If she were unfamiliar with the accepted societal behaviors of a woman on his planet, he couldn't expect her to be any more familiar with the machine.

The journal presents up-to-date clinical, research, and training articles involving a broad range of addictions and compulsive behaviors.

Previous studies have shown the vasopressin receptor gene regulates social behaviors in many species.

Additionally, some children display behaviors learned in orphanages, such as hoarding food, rocking, or showing signs of an eating disorder.

My cat has recently changed some of his behaviors and it's concerning me.

Biologists, however, can demonstrate that these behaviors are only apparently altruistic.

We should also include experimental reductionism, the use of controlled laboratory studies to gain understanding of similar behaviors in the natural environment.

A particular gene that produces a protein called vasopressin in their brains contributes to these behaviors.

But the discriminatory attitudes and thoughtless behaviors, these are what make life difficult, these are the sources of oppression.

The Anti-Social Behavior Unit developed a typology of different types of anti-social behaviors in 2003.

He uses the litter box when I confine him to an area, but as soon as he is let out he is back to the same behaviors.

Leave it in the nursery and use a quick spritz to deter your cat from unwanted behaviors in the room.

We have a lot of great information about common and normal cat behaviors that can usually be remedied.

If your cat has been exhibiting any of the above behaviors and she is unspayed, it is more than likely that she is a cat in heat.

It was felt this would be potentially stimulating for children to build bottom-up composite behaviors and games in Open Logo.

The psychology class will encompass many mental illnesses and common behaviors.

However, excessive crying, colicky behavior, and a baby that refuses to sleep are behaviors which should be addressed immediately with your doctor.

These behaviors often explode into out-of-control problems that drive many parents crazy.

While you certainly want to address negative behaviors immediately, it's just as important to use positive reinforcement and praise to encourage those positive behaviors that your child exhibits.

For this reason, the most basic types of furniture for cats address behaviors such as lounging, climbing and sleeping.

Training cats involves anticipating some of their instinctive behaviors and providing them with the proper places to carry them out.

Cats love rewards and will quickly learn to repeat the behaviors that win them.

Does your cat display any other annoying behaviors?

Part of the joy of owning cats is getting to watch some of the quirky behaviors they develop.

He has lost all of the behaviors that were unique to him.

Cats display common litter box behaviors.

These cards can be ideal for frequent travelers, as most offer no blackout dates and generous mileage bonuses for certain buying behaviors.

Verbal or physical abuse, squandering of marital property and infidelity may be considered by a court, but usually only if those behaviors or actions affected the marital estate.

Symptoms of emotional upset includes regressive behaviors like bedwetting or baby-talk, increased aggression, increased fearfulness and sudden disobedience.

However, many times the beliefs and behaviors of many Catholics did not accurately reflect the principles established and promoted by the Catholic Church.

Behavioral signs might include displaying aggressive behaviors, throwing or destroying objects or being argumentative.

You might want to check out different Bible versus where outbursts of anger are listed with other sinful behaviors like quarreling, jealousy, and selfishness.

Anger management is a form of therapy that teaches new, healthier behaviors while working to eliminate more destructive behaviors.

Use this list to determine if you are practicing unhealthy behaviors.

You may develop depression, eating disorders and uncontrollable negative behaviors.

Modifying behavior - Once you change your cognitions, your behaviors will follow suit.

Vice versa, once you identify the behaviors that make you anxious, you will be able to avoid them and behave in ways that will not produce a heightened state of stress.

If not, and she is engaging in illegal activities or risky behaviors, you may want to look into troubled teen programs.

The teens may be at-risk for numerous behaviors and have been in trouble with the law.

When teens are at-risk of excessive unruly behaviors, they can be considered troubled.

Sometimes placing the teens in educational facilities, such as a boarding or a military school, will have no effect on changing their behaviors.

You should pay attention, however, when an adolescent in your life suddenly adopts these behaviors because they can point to something quite dangerous.

Make sure you create an open environment where your child can discuss her sexual behaviors and desires.

Since a person's brain continues to develop into the twenties, abusing alcohol during the teen years not only has an effect on intellectual development, but can also lead to addictive behaviors.

These personal characteristics don't automatically qualify a child as a high school bully, but they are seen in many children who engage in these behaviors.

The final set of commonalities discovered includes these typical behaviors exhibited by bullies.

These behaviors are more than schoolyard pranks.

Instigating these attacks often causes the teen to become more violent and increase severe behaviors such as fighting, stealing, skipping school, struggling academically and drug abuse.

It sends the message that these behaviors are not tolerated.

These are the prime years that teens develop beliefs and behaviors they carry into adulthood.

Therapists have skills to help your teenager open up and discover the real reasons why he has chosen to join the wrong crowd and engage in risky or illegal behaviors.

If you suspect that you are or are developing behaviors similar to those outlined above, go to these websites and take a multi-question test.

Underage drinking can result in hangovers, poor academic performance, risky sexual behaviors, car crashes, and other accidental injuries.

Simply contemplating or even engaging in certain unusual sexual behaviors at different points in your life does not mean you are addicted.

Do you regularly cross personal boundaries or engage in behaviors you normally would not participate in?

This therapy teaches people to think about their actions and modify their behaviors.

He/she should discourage any regressive or negative behaviors being exhibited by the patient.

This treatment focuses on changing negative thought patterns and developing proactive behaviors to cope with stressful situations.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches users to modify their thinking, expectations, and behaviors in order to stay away from drugs.

It is possible that the cultural influences which encourage unreasonable standards of physical attractiveness may lead some men to develop the unhealthy behaviors associated with anorexia.

Depriving your body of food it craves, ignoring physical signals of hunger, and defining yourself as good or bad depending on whether you've stayed on your diet or broken your diet are all unhealthy behaviors."

Resocialization programs teach job skills, coping mechanisms, and positive social behaviors to promote a return to society.

The life stressors may still exist but that doesn't mean an individual has to give into purging and other negative behaviors to deal with them.

Manic patients do vary in behaviors like anyone; but as a rule they statistically take up far more of a health care provider's time than other mental health patients.

Imagine what it was like before research found medications like lithium and anticonvulsants that can help calm the behaviors of manic depression.

Gather the skills and behaviors that can help them quit.

While Everquest and other online video games aren't physically addictive drugs, some people think that Everquest can promote many of the same negative behaviors that drug addiction inspires.

First, talk to your son or daughter about some of the behaviors he or she exhibits and feelings experienced.

Changing your behaviors is one of the best ways for you to kick the habit.

While all of these "other" behaviors can raise concern for anorexia, their appearance, even in isolation, is associated with an additional increased risk of harm.

You must be able to observe his/her attitudes as well as behaviors.

You can identify anorexia by paying attention to someone's eating and food behaviors as well as how the person looks and feels about him/herself.

Medication helps with the anxiety the hoarder feels, while counseling helps with learning new, healthier behaviors.

Touching feet, adjusting clothing and fidgeting are also behaviors of someone who might be lying.

It's human nature to detect odd behaviors and things that seem a little off.

It can affect people's thoughts and behaviors, worsening their mental illness.

For a person seeking treatment who lives out of state, it can be helpful to recover in a neutral location that is away from the contacts and behaviors that led to the drug addiction.

While there is currently no specific criteria for shopping addiction, there are similar behaviors to any type of addiction.

Control behaviors range from overeating to restricting food intake and even partaking in excessive dieting.

These programs address the underlying emotional issues that led to the addiction as well as help addicts develop healthier behaviors that can keep them from falling back into addiction.

People suffering from alcoholism may lose their jobs, have relationship problems, isolate themselves and engage in risky and illegal behaviors.

To be effective, the treatment should focus on the individual's needs in their entirety, not simply on getting her to stop using the substance or changing undesirable behaviors.

The teen's family will also be provided with support to address their negative feelings and behaviors surrounding the young person's drug use.

The idea is that no matter what the current circumstance may be, new thoughts and feelings can be consciously chosen which will result in new behaviors.

At this point, the young person is more likely to exhibit risk-taking behaviors.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps someone identify the faulty patterns of thinking associated with their body and to confront their maladaptive behaviors.

Avoidance and the various compulsive behaviors associated with the body part typically just interfere with the person being able to learn those concepts.

After the fact - This type of training method focuses on correcting behaviors after the dog has already behaved inappropriately.

Owners who use the clicker training method provide consequences desired by their dog in exchange for actions or behaviors desired by the owners.

Keep your dog's habits and behaviors in mind when purchasing dog clothes.

Behaviors that were once cute or a small nuisance can become very destructive.

Once you accustom your pet to playing with his new toy when there are treats inside, you can use it to teach him desired behaviors.

If you allow your pet to determine his own preferred behaviors, and believe us he will, then you will find yourself dominated by your pet and unable to train him for nearly anything.

One of the earliest undesirable behaviors owners encounter with a new pet is chewing.

These are all examples of problems behaviors that need to stopped, An electronic dog collars can help you reinforce the "No" command by delivering an unpleasant stimulation that will help you get the message across.

By delivering a small static shock to your dog, they can be used to deter unacceptable behaviors such as nuisance barking or to reinforce your verbal commands.

Some adolescents may participate in risk-taking behaviors or want to do everything because they are worried that they may not have time to do everything before some random act kills them.

Behaviors that warrant grief counseling or therapy are unresolved anger and hostility, not expressing grief at all or minimally, or depression or anxiety that interferes with daily activities that lasts for weeks or months.

Children who are chronic liars are often found to engage in other antisocial behaviors.

Chronic lying is often accompanied by other antisocial behaviors.

The symptoms of Tourette syndrome are usually motor and/or vocal tics, although in some children other symptoms such as socially inappropriate comments, and socially inappropriate or self-injurious behaviors sometimes occur.

People with Tourette syndrome are more likely to exhibit non-obscene, socially inappropriate behaviors such as expressing insulting or socially unacceptable comments or performing socially unacceptable actions.

Some physicians criticize the DSM-IV criteria, arguing that they do not include the full range of behaviors and symptoms seen in Tourette syndrome.

Williams syndrome cannot be cured, but the ensuing symptoms, developmental delays, learning problems, and behaviors can be treated.

The use of educational programs to teach caregivers good parenting skills and to be aware of abusive behaviors so that they seek help for abusive tendencies is critical to stopping abuse.

These behaviors may result in the child being treated badly by peers.

It is based on observation and is used to assess the coping-related behaviors that are used by infants and toddlers in everyday living.

The examiner presents a series of test materials to the child and observes the child's responses and behaviors.

This 30-item scale rates the child's relevant behaviors and measures attention/arousal, orientation/engagement, emotional regulation, and motor quality.

Engaging in safe behaviors may reduce the risk of injury-induced pituitary deficiencies.

These behaviors can also transfer to the school setting, making these children uncooperative with their peers.

Physicians and nurses observe the intensity of these behaviors and calculate a pain severity score ranging from 0 to 7.

Social competence is the condition of possessing the social, emotional, and intellectual skills and behaviors needed to succeed as a member of society.

Social competence refers to the social, emotional, and cognitive skills and behaviors that children need for successful social adaptation.

Understanding the first impression you make on others will help you to correct the behaviors that are not reflective of how you and your close friends see you.

Find out if you can tolerate the behaviors that bother you about him.

All this is to say that your behaviors, her reaction, your feeling lost, are all normal, natural and human.

Having come from an alcoholic family, you have learned survival behaviors.

His behaviors were predictable as well as familiar to you.

Now you are dating a man who has unfamiliar behaviors.

If your boyfriend is flirting with other women, whether he intends to follow through or not, he is engaging in risky behaviors that may lead him to do something he later regrets.

One way you can use this questionnaire is to explore some of the behaviors your significant other is exhibiting and then discuss them with your partner.

However, when you engage in flirting behaviors with this co-worker, even if she doesn't get angry with you, you are still responsible for your behavior.

As a result, children often internalize their feelings of loss, sadness, anger etc. that can lead to negative behaviors in the children and as a result negatively influence a new marriage.

Why are you listening to stories about your ex's sexual behaviors?

During the infatuation stage, couples tend to overlook the behaviors of their partner that are unattractive, preferring to focus on the qualities of our love interest that are most attractive.

The solutions will be the behaviors each of you will do to make romance a reality.

If she says you are a couple, then the talk needs to focus on the behaviors that took place during your recent trip together.

If you choose to upgrade your membership, you will take a questionnaire about your attitudes and behaviors that have to do with sincerity and integrity.

If you have loved ones coming to you reporting that they saw your partner flirting or engaging in sexual behaviors with someone else, then it's a pretty good sign that your partner is cheating.

While these are behaviors, one might engage in with a good friend, if he is excluding you and refusing to share the details because he "values" that confidence over yours, then he is likely cheating.

Write down any odd behaviors you witness in a notebook and hide it in a safe place.

It's usually fairly easy to spot these behaviors, but it takes prompt action by the site administrators to actually ban them from the site.

Many doctors would find those kinds of stalking behaviors and assumptions offensive.

Other meanings include a vow to refrain from drub abuse or bullying, as well as other behaviors that could tarnish physical or mental purity.

The ring can also symbolize abstinence from other behaviors many consider destructive, such as smoking, drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs.

The image is a warning to avoid extreme behaviors and beliefs that will cause an imbalance in your life.

Any relationship can go sour when bad behaviors remain untempered.

The difficulty in predicting the success of relationships based solely on astrological features is that environmental factors play an important role in shaping precise behaviors.

Both parties involved will need to look carefully at their own inherent nature and recognize the behaviors that need improvement in order for any sort of conflict resolution to occur.

A person with a moon and Venus in Aries can be expected to manifest many of the aforementioned behaviors regardless of his sun sign.

A clear cut definition of the Pisces persona can be useful for drawing out and seeking to explain certain behaviors that seem prominent within a person's psychology.

In an unstable individual, these behaviors can produce addictions and a wealth of neuroses.

Telling your child what to do, rather than what not to do, will increase good behaviors.

Your older child should start to meet more expectations but will still need frequent redirection and reminders to help him demonstrate positive behaviors.

Giving your child responsibility helps her learn about expected behaviors.

Use a behavior chart for behaviors that might be particularly difficult for your child.

Use a bartering system for your older child as a way to reward positive behaviors.

Some may experience social alienation or ridicule due to their peculiar behaviors and narrow interests.

Because the range of symptoms and behaviors are so varied from one child to another, the key to discovering coping mechanisms for teens with Asperger syndrome depends somewhat on understanding these behaviors.

Characterized by problems with communication, social interaction, and repetitive behaviors, classic autism is typically diagnosed before age three.

Individuals skilled at accurately gaging affective responses in others are usually talented at choosing socially adaptive behaviors, in their response.

It may be that the Government has in mind personality disordered individuals with sexually deviant behaviors.

Words that conjure up pictures of behaviors we would prefer to keep hidden.

These results indicate that disruption of the nucleus accumbens or lateral hypothalamus alter the expression of emotional behaviors.

Have nominated individuals been made responsible for detecting, investigating and correcting unsafe behaviors?

These can be deeply ingrained and sometimes lifelong inflexible attitudes and behaviors.

McCorkle (1992) found that older men in a maximum-security prison displayed distinct avoidance behaviors when fearful.

Likewise, in the classroom teachers develop standard behaviors which become part of their teaching style.

Changing unacceptable behaviors Changing unacceptable behaviors starts with a focus on the rainmaker 's positive capabilities.

Now half the adverts on TV are for dubious products and behaviors touted by self-styled experts.

Concerned with underage drinking and dangerous behaviors, many colleges have taken steps to counteract the party culture.

Perhaps your focus is on teaching your pet to cease annoying/destructive behaviors.

This enables owners to teach their pets the kind of basic behaviors needed to maintain a happy home and relationship.

The larger the dog, the more important it is for you to establish the behaviors you want and discourage the ones you don't.

The idea behind both stimuli is to interrupt and discourage unwanted behaviors.

Their high intelligence and energy level can result in destructive behaviors such as chewing and digging.

If he shows any of these behaviors, he will fail.

There are certain behaviors that, when occurring together, can signal a dog's system is preparing to shut down.

It is recommended that puppies who earn the CGC certification undergo re-testing once they reach adulthood to be certain that their temperaments and behaviors still merit the distinction.

The evaluator will check to ensure that the dog is well cared for and that his or her behaviors are appropriate and are not characterized by shyness or resentment toward friendly strangers.

Without the collar, they continued some undesirable behaviors.

The archetypical occasions and behaviors promoted by the mainstream media as being "all Boomer, all the time" isn't correct.

Repetitive behaviors may materialize, such as tissue shredding or hand wringing.

Patients sleep at the sleep center during their normal bedtime hours while technicians monitor their sleep behaviors.

Another natural way to gain a good nights rest is by identifying bad bedtime behaviors.

You may notice behaviors that resemble some of the same behaviors other addictions could cause.

The caregiver who was present with the child while he or she was having the seizure will be asked questions relating to the child's behaviors in an attempt to determine the type of seizure.

The parent-child relationship consists of a combination of behaviors, feelings, and expectations that are unique to a particular parent and a particular child.

A key focus of treatment for anorexia nervosa is teaching the principles of healthy eating and improving disordered eating behaviors.

Early treatment such as counseling may help to prevent early signs of disordered eating from progressing into more serious behaviors.

However, generally across all cultures, children and adolescents are more apt to experience conduct disorder symptoms manifested by acting out behaviors, while adults are more apt to experience depressive symptoms.

They will sometimes revert to behaviors they had at a younger age, such as wetting the bed or thumb sucking.

Some of these behaviors are comfort actions.

Undesirable or socially unacceptable behaviors that interfere with the acquisition of desired skills and with the performance of everyday activities are classified as maladaptive behaviors, or more commonly, behavior problems.

Despite this simple definition, social competence is an elusive concept, because the skills and behaviors required for healthy social development vary with the age of the child and with the demands of particular situations.

Conversely, the same behaviors (e.g., aggression, shyness) have different implications for social adaptation depending on the age of the child and the particulars of the social context.

The term social skills describes the child's knowledge of and ability to use a variety of social behaviors that are appropriate to a given interpersonal situation and that are pleasing to others in each situation.

Exclusion from a normal peer group can deprive rejected children of opportunities to develop adaptive social behaviors.

Children are particularly likely to become rejected if they show a wide range of conduct problems, including disruptive, hyperactive, and disagreeable behaviors in addition to physical aggression.

Across these developmental periods, prosocial skills (friendly, cooperative, helpful behaviors) and self-control skills (anger management, negotiation skills, problem-solving skills) are key facets of social competence.

School adjustment can be a downhill slide for these children as teachers may get discouraged and peers may be angered by their behaviors.

Teacher assessments can include behavioral checklists and rating scales and direct observations of specific social behaviors.

Parents can help to identify problem behaviors such as aggression, withdrawal, and noncompliance that may interfere with social skills.

The age of the child, the kinds of behaviors that are part of the problem, and the reasons for the friendship problem may all affect the helping strategy.

It can be difficult to suppress aggressive and disruptive behaviors in peer settings for several reasons.

For one thing, these behaviors often "work" in the sense that they can be instrumental in achieving desired goals.

If they then generalize these socially incompetent behaviors to their peer interactions, peer rejection may result.

As children get older, family interaction styles and the ways in which parents discipline may play a primary role in the development of noncompliant or aggressive behaviors in children.

Separation anxiety reflects a stage of brain development rather than the onset of problem behaviors.

There is not thought to be a single cause of substance abuse, though scientists are as of 2004 increasingly convinced that certain people possess a genetic predisposition which can affect the development of addictive behaviors.

Moral development is the process throught which children develop proper attitudes and behaviors toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws.

Gilligan's work, however, doesn't solve the gender question, because newer research has found that both males and females often base their moral judgments and behaviors on both justice and care.

Risky behaviors such as speeding, drinking, smoking, doing drugs, or engaging in sexual behavior may be related to peer pressure and wanting to conform to the group or may be a way to defy authority.

These behaviors, though deemed morally wrong by most societies, may also be symptoms of deeper psychological troubles.

Behaviors such as these may be indicators of sociopathic disorders.

Antisocial behaviors are disruptive acts characterized by covert and overt hostility and intentional aggression toward others.

Antisocial behaviors exist along a severity continuum and include repeated violations of social rules, defiance of authority and of the rights of others, deceitfulness, theft, and reckless disregard for self and others.

Covert antisocial behaviors in early childhood may include noncompliance, sneaking, lying, or secretly destroying another's property.

Antisocial behaviors also include drug and alcohol abuse and high-risk activities involving self and others.

These disruptive behaviors are one of the most common forms of psychopathology, accounting for half of all childhood mental health referrals.

Pre-adolescent boys are far more likely to engage in overtly aggressive antisocial behaviors than girls.

Antisocial behaviors may have an early onset, identifiable as soon as age four, or late onset, manifesting in middle or late adolescence.

Late onset antisocial behaviors are less persistent and more likely to be discarded as a behavioral strategy than those that first appear in early childhood.

Multiple risk factors for development and persistence of antisocial behaviors include genetic, neurobiological, and environmental stressors beginning at the prenatal stage and often continuing throughout the childhood years.

Genetic factors are thought to contribute substantially to the development of antisocial behaviors.

Genetic factors, including abnormalities in the structure of the prefrontal cortex of the brain, may play a role in an inherited predisposition to antisocial behaviors.

Companions and peers are influential in the development of antisocial behaviors.

Some studies of boys with antisocial behaviors have found that companions are mutually reinforcing with their talk of rule breaking in ways that predict later delinquency and substance abuse.

Parents and teachers who notice a pattern of repeated lying, cheating, stealing, bullying, hitting, noncompliance, and other disruptive behaviors should not ignore these symptoms.

Serious childhood antisocial behaviors can lead to diagnoses of conduct disorder (CD) or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

Children who exhibit antisocial behaviors are at an increased risk for alcohol use disorders (AUDs).

Longitudinal studies have found that as many as 71 percent of chronic juvenile offenders had progressed from childhood antisocial behaviors through a history of early arrests to a pattern of chronic law breaking.

Coercive behavior-Maladaptive behaviors engaged in as a means of avoiding or escaping aversive events.

Skilled parents will be able to lovingly confront the child and help the child recognize that certain behaviors are unacceptable.

Parental attitudes regarding alcohol and behaviors related to alcohol use have a major impact on how children and young adults view drinking alcohol.

In general, fewer problem behaviors, higher cognitive performance, and better mother-child attachments were noted when children received higher quality care.

If this period of art work is coupled with risky behaviors or depression, it may represent a cry for help and therapy may be appropriate.

Parents should identify appropriate behaviors and give frequent feedback, rewarding good behavior quickly so that the child associates the "prize" with the wanted behavior.

The role of parents is to notice these behaviors and provide positive attention to them.

Some other desirable behaviors are not part of a child's normal development and need to be modeled and taught by their parents.

These behaviors include sharing, good manners, effective study habits, among others.

Parents need to identify those skills and behaviors they want their children to demonstrate and then make a concerted effort to teach and strengthen those behaviors.

Children who learn through positive reinforcement tend to internalize the newly learned behaviors.

Preschoolers also learn from having their good behaviors rewarded.

Like other addictive behaviors, self-mutilation gradually takes more and more destruction to achieve release.

Therapists who work as a team can model new behaviors for the family through their interactions with each other during a session.

This concept is used to explain the intergenerational transmission of attitudes, problems, behaviors, and other issues.

It teaches individuals how to change their thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes, while providing techniques to lessen anxiety, such as deep breathing, muscle relaxation, and refocusing.

Middle school students who have been retained have more negative behaviors than their peers in academic ability who were not retained.

These behaviors include smoking cigarettes, alcohol use, early sexual activity, and aggressive or violent behaviors.

Education and good safe-sex practices can prevent sexually transmitted diseases in ways that a surgical procedure cannot because these are diseases acquired through risky behaviors.

Parents are troubled by children who are out of control and have problem behaviors such as running away, truancy, school failings or suspensions, and delinquency.

Such behaviors can isolate children from parents who are too busy to notice and from neighbors who are not even aware of their trouble.

Culture-The system of communal beliefs, values behaviors, customs, and materials that members of a society use to understand their world and each other, and which are passed down among suceeding generation.

However, the behaviors of children with this condition go beyond shyness.

By the time most adolescents are in high school, they have had some experience with sexual behaviors in the context of a relationship.

They should be prepared for behaviors that are problematic, such as temper tantrums.

Sleep disorders are a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the individual's amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or in behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep.

The family's observations are particularly important for evaluating sleepwalking, kicking in bed, snoring loudly, or other behaviors that the patient cannot remember.

Older children should be provided opportunities to interact in smaller groups and in one-on-one situations, where it may be easier to try out new behaviors and make up for social mistakes.

Help may also be needed for adolescents whose acceptance by peers relates to common negative behaviors, such as gang affiliation, bullying, smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse.

The child is praised or rewarded for not performing the tics and for replacing them with acceptable alternative behaviors.

Diagnosing children with an anxiety disorder can be very difficult, since anxiety often results in disruptive behaviors that overlap with other disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity.

When children engage in play with their peers and families, they begin to learn some behaviors are acceptable while others are unacceptable.

Parents and teachers who spend time observing and understanding childhood behaviors may want to report to the child's therapist what they see the child do.

Factors that may contribute to this willingness include alcohol or drug abuse, poor impulse control, and a belief that the sexual behaviors are acceptable and not harmful to the child.

There are many formally identified personality disorders, each with its own types of associated behaviors.

The therapist then helps the child replace this thinking with thoughts that result in more appropriate feelings and behaviors.

Personality-The organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a human being distinctive.

This behavior is part of a regression into a more secure period and can include other types of regressive behaviors such as bed wetting or wanting to sleep with the light on in the bedroom.

Such impulses often result in antisocial or delinquent behaviors.

The earliest acting out behaviors are often referred to as temper tantrums.

These behaviors are usually first observed in infants between the ages of 12 and 18 months of age.

Observed behaviors in infants trying to express their anger or frustration usually include patently angry-sounding crying, kicking hands and feet, and possibly even trying to strike out.

For toddlers, such violent outbursts of temper often include hitting, kicking, and biting others; and possibly self-injurious behaviors such as head-banging.

When no medical or psychological determination is discovered for acting out behaviors in young children above the age of four, the assumption can be made that the temper tantrums are a learned behavior.

More critical negative behaviors including aggressive or abusive actions toward other children, animals, adults, or even themselves are usually a more serious and longer-lasting form of acting out.

Though certainly significant problems, acting out in the form of various rebellious behaviors that are not self-injurious or life-threatening is considered the less serious form of this "cry for help."

The parent whose child exhibits the negative behaviors called "acting out" probably wonders what is normal and what is not.

Well-meaning friends and family may assure them that the child "will grow out of it" when the acting out behaviors are clearly not a normal part of growth and development.

Some people consider acting out behaviors as simply part of the learning process for young children not requiring professional help.

Its purpose is help young people develop strategies for coping positively with their negative thinking, tendencies toward depression, and acting out behaviors.

Teens with life course persistent behaviors act out in violent ways from early childhood on, in a variety of situations.

They usually continue with negative behaviors into adulthood.

Those young people with adolescence limited behaviors typically act out in specific defined social situations and usually stop acting out behaviors before reaching adulthood.

The term pervasive developmental disorders was first used in the 1980s to describe a class of neurological disorders that involved impaired social and communication skills and repetitive behaviors.

These specialists evaluate laboratory medical tests, neurological tests, and psychological tests; interview parents and children; and observe and assess behaviors.

Administering anti-yeast medications has decreased negative behaviors in some children.

Pica is most often diagnosed when a report of such behaviors can be provided by an individual or documented by another person.

Close observation of the individual with pica may limit inappropriate eating behaviors.

Learning theory focuses on the role of environmental factors in shaping the intelligence of children, especially on a child's ability to learn by having certain behaviors rewarded and others discouraged.

Addiction has been extended, however, to include mood-altering behaviors or activities.

The most effective form of prevention appears to be a stable family that models responsible attitudes toward mood-altering substances and behaviors.

The NBAS examines a wide range of behaviors in newborns up to two months of age, creating a portrait of the infant's strengths, adaptive responses, possible vulnerabilities, and individuality.

It is also interesting to note that people with PKU are less likely to display such antisocial behaviors as lying, teasing, and active disobedience.

A small minority of children (16%) who spent 30 hours or more per week in child care settings were reported to have higher levels of problem behaviors (such as fighting) than children who spent less time in care.

Delinquent and antisocial behaviors in young children, particularly those who live in environments where poverty, unemployment, and drug addiction are common, are early danger signs.

Personality development is the development of the organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive.

Parents are usually the first to recognize that their child has a problem with emotions or behaviors that may point to a personality disorder.

Because rape and sexual assault cause long-term psychological trauma, parents should be aware of symptoms of PTSD, depression, substance abuse, high-risk behaviors, and anxiety in their children.

They can also regress to behaviors such as thumb sucking, bed wetting, temper tantrums, and clinging to a favorite blanket or toy.

Crying, daydreaming, and problems with friends and in school are common abandonment behaviors in children of this age.

In its most severe form, autism may include extreme self-injurious, repetitive, highly unusual, and aggressive behaviors.

The characteristic behaviors of autism may or may not be apparent in infancy (18 to 24 months) but usually become obvious during early childhood (two to six years).

There is as of 2004 no cure for autism, but appropriate treatment may promote relatively normal development and lower the incidence of undesirable behaviors.

Many people diagnosed with IED appear to have general problems with anger or other impulsive behaviors between explosive episodes.

Toddlers may react to a new baby by reverting to younger behaviors in an attempt to gain parental attention.

As noted above, they may respond to the birth of a new sibling by reverting to more childish behaviors.

This testing and accompanying frustration often manifests itself in tantrums and other socially unacceptable behaviors such as an unwillingness to share toys.

Help may also be needed for adolescents whose lack of self-esteem is expressed in negative behaviors, such as criminal activities, gang affiliation, smoking, and alcohol and other drug dependency.

This peer pressure can influence how children dress, what kind of music they listen to, and what types of behavior they engage in, including risky behaviors such as using drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol, and engaging in sex.

Focus on specific negative behaviors and explain why they are bad.

More often than not, peers reinforce family values, but they have the potential to encourage problem behaviors as well.

Help may also be needed for adolescents whose acceptance by peers relates to common negative behaviors, such as criminal activities, gang affiliation, bullying, smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse.

In addition, small children are not likely to repeat behaviors that result in a trip to the doctor's office or hospital emergency room.

Because no vaccine for HIV is available, the only way to prevent infection by the virus is to avoid behaviors that put a person at risk of infection, such as sharing needles and having unprotected sex.

Some research has suggested that babies exhibit fewer visually exploratory behaviors when using a pacifier; they look around less and can seem less alert.

Sleep disorders are characterized by disturbance in the amount of sleep, in the quality or timing of sleep, or in the behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep.

Unlike school phobia, truancy often occurs with other antisocial behaviors such as shoplifting, lying, and drug and alcohol use.

Behavioral therapy involves teaching both parents and children strategies for overcoming certain stressful behaviors such as separation and may involve desensitization by gradual exposure to the stressful event.

Because they can be very good at keeping their problem from friends and family, many sufferers do not get the help they need until the behaviors are deeply ingrained habits and hard to change.

Other behaviors can include preoccupation with parts of objects, hand or finger flapping, and rocking.

Children and adolescents with ODD do not exhibit the more serious aggressive behaviors or physical cruelty that is common in other disorders.

The goal of therapy is to help provide a consistent daily schedule, support, rules, discipline, and limits, as well as to help train patients to get along with others by modifying behaviors.