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"Turning back the clock": A positive strategy for changing unacceptable youth behavior
1Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Family Process
|April 13, 2023
Summary
Turning back the clock (TBC) is a novel strategy for youth behavior, inspired by nonviolent resistance (NVR). It allows immediate behavioral improvement by reenacting events, aiming to reduce conflict escalation.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Behavioral Science
- Conflict Resolution
Background:
- Unacceptable or coercive youth behavior requires innovative intervention strategies.
- Nonviolent principles, such as Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) or Connecting Authority (CA), show effectiveness in managing youth behavior.
- Existing NVR/CA variants have demonstrated efficacy in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and pre-post designs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the "Turning back the clock" (TBC) strategy for addressing youth behavior.
- To encourage large-scale development and usability testing of the TBC strategy.
- To lay the groundwork for future effectiveness evaluations of TBC.
Main Methods:
- The TBC strategy involves negotiating the social timeline narrative to enable immediate behavior improvement.
- Adults model the strategy, encouraging youths to reenact and correct misbehavior promptly.
- A declaration is made that certain behaviors disqualify requests, but re-attempting using TBC is an option.
Main Results:
- The TBC strategy shows promising usability in case studies, though effectiveness has not been formally evaluated.
- The core mechanism of TBC is immediate reenactment of events for behavioral correction.
- The strategy aims to increase youth engagement in self-correction and reduce conflict escalation.
Conclusions:
- The TBC strategy offers a novel, nonviolent approach to managing youth behavior.
- Further usability testing and effectiveness evaluations are needed to validate TBC.
- Successful implementation of TBC may reduce coercion and threats in youth interactions.
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