Mad River Behavioral Health

 Critical feedback elevates performance.  It is our professional responsibility to practice and improve accepting critical feedback.  *** The better we get at receiving critical feedback the more value we gain from it and the better our performance becomes.  —> Accepting even harsh critical feedback is a professional skill set.  Practice to mastery leads to improvement. The more you practicing accepting critical feedback the better you will get at receiving critical feedback.  This is our professional responsibility to our own professional development.  #NewHampshire #Feedback

A Sledgehammer is ...  Not ... a Behavior Change Tool. Constructive Feedback Behavioral kids and teens*, typically get absolutely inundated by crushing waves of criticism.  Pause for a moment right here.  Read this again to establish a deep empathic connection with this reality.  Imagine crushing waves of criticism inundating you every day for years and years.   Close your eyes. Breathe gently and deeply.  Imagine how it would feel. Not only do behavioral kids tend to get subjected to frequent negative feedback on their problem behaviors, but they are very typically hyper-criticized for ordinary behaviors as well. Behavioral kids tend to get scrutinized frequently, in everything they do.  Many behavioral kids know this and say it very clearly. This is extraordinarily destructive to the child and very counter-productive. Imagine for a moment, being hyper-criticized at work; moment to moment, day-in-and-day-out, for y...