Frequently Asked Questions
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Parents are paying
for exclusive one-to-one consultancy with Warwick Dyer. Warwick usually
only works with one client at a time (occasionally two). Clients receive
three months of contracted training and support. [This time can be extended
without further fee, should it be needed, but this is rarely needed]
The process starts with a full day of Training and intensive analysis and
explanation of the child's behaviour and detailed instruction on the
implementation of their new training regime. A further day of consultation
is given where necessary. Each family receives an intervention designed
specifically for them.
Warwick's interventions have an unrivalled success ratio.
The training day is followed by 13 weeks (more if needed) of daily in-depth
training.
*Parents Zoom or phone
between 8.30am and 6.30pm on weekdays.(With older children this may have to be during the day or later in the evening)
An experienced solicitor in the UK will charge between £210 to
£300 an hour.
Our charges compare very well with these.
There are many solicitors but only one Warwick Dyer.
Warwick gives each client a minimum of 45 hours in daily preparation and
consultation.
Our fee is fixed regardless of the time Warwick actually needs to give both in
terms of his
analysis and in his explanation to parents.
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The Problem
You give us a detailed description of the problem and the changes that you require
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The Responses
You give us a detailed description of your current responses and what you have tried in the past.
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The Explanation
We give a detailed analysis of the effects of your current dynamics and a detailed explanation of an alternative response to each of the behaviours that you want to change
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The Intervention
You begin the new responses the moment you next see your child
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Daily Support
You communicate with us each week day until the changes you have identified are achieved
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Open-Ended
We are so confident that you will achieve your goal that you pay only a one-off payment for the original consultation and all the in-depth work that is then needed.
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The big difference - this is the big difference between our approach and that of other agencies. Not only do we make detailed suggestions of what you should do (often professionals make general statements rather than give you the detail that you need) but we also put ourselves on the line each day to support you with each change that you make. If we were not effective we would never work in this exposed way.
Because their
children need to feel that they are leading the changes in the home.
They are the ones who need to know how to change and maintain their
child's behaviour. They do not need their authority to be undermined
even temporarily by someone from outside. With IB (interactive
behaviour) training, they remain the focus for change; as far as the
children are concerned all the changes are generated by their parents.
The alternatives available tend to be various forms of more
intrusive, longer-term, child or family counselling/therapy.
Parents often come to us after long-term involvement with other agencies
and state that they still do not know what to do in response to
their child's behaviour problem.
We offer a fast practical and effective intervention for those who want the
behaviour problem with their child to change without long-term intervention
or any unnecessary intrusion into other aspects of their life.
What
our latest evaluated client said CLICK
HERE
Our success rate is very high. In fact to date amongst our fee-paying clientele we have a near 100% success rate. We guarantee that this statement is true (to the best of our knowledge). We also say that new clients would be right to feel that this ratio strongly suggests that they will have a positive outcome. However, we do not, of course, guarantee success with each new client.
We work with single parents - often for a reduced fee but
if you with a partner who is not committed to the process then no, I am
afraid not. Often parents have differing ways of responding to the
same problem and this inconsistency is one of the first issues that have to
be addressed. Both parents have to agree to make the necessary
arrangements to Zoom or phone and be involved.
Parents often say this to us, if this were really true then their child would be very strange indeed. The truth is that parents who say this have no idea of the punishments and rewards they are actually using. Most parents are inadvertently rewarding the very behaviour that they want to change and punishing behaviour that they should be encouraging.
See a
recent typical evaluation
What parents say
Absolutely. If either parent cannot control their
own emotions then their child's behaviour will not change. The
training will show you, in great detail, what to do in response to your
child's behaviour, so you should have far less reason to become frustrated.
However, if you still cannot control your responses then you will
not be successful.
The problem with many behaviour books and courses is that
they do not explain that it is the totality of how parents respond to their
children that needs attention. Parents are sometimes advised to be
positive without being told exactly how to incorporate the use of forfeits
(i.e. consequences, sanctions, punishments) or they are told to use
sanctions (time out etc) without guidance about how to counter the child's
avoidance strategies. Without detailed advice parents just end up
frustrated and often find themselves using instinctive, but very harmful,
interpersonal sanctions on their
children.
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Yes. But Warwick has been working with
behaviour for 25 years much of that time in schools and working intensely
with parents for the last 10 years and in all that time he has never come
across a case where children behaved reasonably (and were handled
reasonably) at home but then behaved badly at school. Have a look at
his response to a parent who asked this question fine at home bad at school.
We will work with you regardless but - No not necessarily.
Most behaviour disorders involve behaviour that that is
different rather than bad. The key indicators that parents
(and professionals) need to look for in reaching a diagnosis are
not, we repeat not necessarily the 'bad behaviours' that you
are experiencing that you will find listed here.
Warwick is consistently successful with children who display this group of behaviours. Although these
behaviours go together as predictably as any disorder or syndrome they are
not symptomatic and can be quickly and effectively changed.
They are unlikely to result directly from the ADHD. They are
'interactive' in nature and can be changed by carefully working with parent
responses.
The key for parents, even those who have already been given a professional
diagnosis, is to subtract all the symptoms that could be the result of
interactive behaviour imbalance (i.e. bad behaviour) and see what is
left.
Some children drive their parents to distraction. It is not uncommon
for parents to have built up (without realising it) a repertoire of
responses that are seriously inappropriate and inconsistent, which
results in some serious-looking behaviour. The child's behaviour is extreme
- the parent does not know what to do - so - they repeat what they have
always done. In these cases the child's behaviour although
entrenched is often still relatively easy to change, the key is to convince
parents of the importance of the consistent use of subtle changes to their
own behaviour.
- Attributing reasons for
behaviour
that stop you changing it
- My child is
particularly
rude to her Grandmother
but only when I am in the room
- My daughter favours me and
won't
let her father do anything for her
- I’ve read books on parenting but....
A typical letter from a client....
Have a Look at this Disturbing Letter - My Children have been
diagnosed with multiple Problems
....it appears to detail a sad lack of explanations from the Professionals....
- We think our son has
Aspergers Syndrome
- I had parents who could not train their
children
- The Child Psychiatrist told me to compromise at all
costs
The first thing to happen will be a full day of
consultation - Warwick comes to you. The day is very long and can be
very tiring so parents need to be prepared. There then follows a
minimum of 3 months training.
Yes, there is a single fee with no other charges, it
covers all the work done and all our time in consultation with parents by
Zoom or phone each day. Parents need to allow an hour or more for their
daily Zoom or phone call, particularly in the first weeks. The fee also
covers all our travel and other expenses.
* There is no limit on how long these calls take if you and Warwick feel
they are productive.
Warwick can only work with a few clients at a time.
His work is exclusive and free spaces are sought after. The cost for the
full intervention and the daily support for a minimum of 3 months is
£1900.00 * (this can be negotiated if circumstances are difficult)
This fee covers all the work that we do and includes all
UK travel and other expenses.
Fees in other currencies -
*(US $2435.00 )
( Canadian $3370.00 ) (Aust
$3535.00 ) (Euro €2247.00)
*(Singapore $3272.00 )
( Indian Rupees INR=203881.00)
as of Aug 2024
What
our latest evaluated client said CLICK
HERE
If you would
like to be the next family that Warwick works with you will need to ring us
- but
please read all of this current page first -
(international 44 208 653 9768).
Most parents who ring
already have a good idea how Warwick works and have correctly concluded
that their child's continuing bad behaviour is caused or made worse by
their responses to it. Warwick will ask you (and your partner) to
detail the problems you are having. Then, if all agree, a date will
be decided for the consultation day which starts the intervention.
The consultation day is arranged on a day when your children are not around
- children usually never know that Warwick has been
involved.
Parents need to find a time
each day between
8.30 am and 6.30 pm.
when they are both available and when their children cannot overhear.
Parents who are in different locations during the day can usually arrange a
conference call and talk at the same time. Between 3.30am and 12.30pm Eastern Canada & US.
Between 2.30am and 11.30pm Central Canada & US.
Between 12.30am and 09.30pm Pacific Canada & US.
Between 7.30pm and 4.30am Eastern Australia.
Yes, for the most part, but
since the parent can only relate what they think is significant and it is
often just as crucial that they change some of what they do when they think
their child is behaving well, they are asked at intervals to record some of
their typical interactions with their child. Recording can be emailed (or Dropbox etc used for larger files) but are, in whatever
form received, only used for the immediate training that follows and then
deleted.
Surprising
little! In most cases parents begin to see beneficial
effects within two or three weeks. The child's acceptance of their
parents' new expectations is often accomplished within the first four
weeks; parents then decide the amount of time they still need to completely
consolidate their training.
Too Young to be Naughty
I tell my 15 months old 'No', but he just won't
listenA "Nasty" 2 year old
Admitting that the behaviour
is serious, that a child is not going to 'grow out' of it.
Admitting that objective help is needed. It can
also be difficult for parents to accept how quickly changes in their own
responses can affect seriously inappropriate behaviour.
What is the
theoretical basis of your work?
Contact
us
United Kingdom - Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5.30
0208 653 9768
by Phone
International - Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5.30
44 208 653 9768
by Email
WarwickDyer @ behaviourchange.com
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by Letter
Behaviour Change Consultancy
24 Rochdale
66 Harold Road
London SE19 3TF
Warwick is a Teacher
he is not a Doctor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist or Counsellor.
He had extensive training (6 years of weekly in-service
training and weekly case-study analysis) in a team of specialist
teachers and worked for 18 years as a behaviour specialist advising and
training teachers and parents and advising youngsters.
What
our latest evaluated client said CLICK HERE
Warwick has not been
accredited by the new US founded Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BCBA
or BCABA) and does not have any formal behaviour analysts' degree or
qualification.
Every client on completion
of the process has been happy with the results. Only three clients in the
entire history of the consultancy were uncomfortable with the process right
at the beginning and decided not to continue. Further endorsement
and validation can be found in the televised scrutiny given to our work by
in-depth TV programmes during 2004 - 5 looking at the progress of four
client families over many months.
These programmes were so ground-breaking - changing behaviour that previous
television programmes had treated as hopeless - that they sparked off many
imitators (SuperNanny, Dr. Byron etc.) none of whom dealt with behaviour
approaching the severity of Warwick's "Cutting Edge" originals or that of
our average clients. View programmes
- CLICK HERE
* We link to a response we made to a client that asked us this question
here
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