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Dr. Becky Bailey
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| Proven Results of Conscious Discipline |
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Decreases impulsivity, hyperactivity in “difficult” children in public schools
| What research says… |
What Conscious Discipline Does… |
| At-risk children require a disproportionately large amount of time and resources from teachers and schools (Strong, 2002). |
Conscious Discipline® can bring these at risk, “difficult” children into a normally behaving range, saving valuable school resources. |
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A survey conducted in 2001-2002 assessed the behavior of "difficult children" both before and after their classrooms implemented the Conscious Discipline® program. The students, grades K through 6th, were chosen to participate based on teacher nomination and the number of discipline referrals each child had received in the past. It is important to note that the older the student, the greater the years of chronic discipline issues that seemed unchangeable by traditional discipline methods.
The 12 students were assessed using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children, or BASC. The BASC program provides an evaluation of personality and behavior disorders among children. With the use of Conscious Discipline®, nine of these students, or 3/4 of the subjects, achieved significant improvements in the following areas: the reduction of hyperactivity, the reduction of aggressiveness, and the reduction of impulsivity and externalization of problems. Conscious Discipline® was able to bring "atypically" behaving students into a "normal" range. Since these small numbers of children require tremendous amount of school resources, the teachers and principals were very pleased.
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