#0122 Assessing Appropriate Discipline Interventions:
Choosing Effective Discipline: 
A Guide for Foster Families


Charles E. Confer

Curriculum goals include:

  • Enhance parental discipline skills and strategies,
  • Learn to assess the appropriate level of the child's misbehavior or behavioral problem and
  • Choose the discipline interventions that are appropriate for the specific level.

Curriculum content focuses on:

  • The results of effective discipline
  • The differences between discipline and punishment.
  • Identification of the fourteen assessment tools used to identify the appropriate level of seriousness of the child's misbehavior.
  • The method of self-evaluation through which parents may assess the effectiveness of current discipline skills and strategies
  • The Four Levels of behavioral problems and discipline intervention.
  • Discipline skills, strategies and interventions that are appropriate for each level.
  • A review of basic effective discipline attitudes and beliefs.
  • A special note about anger as a discipline skill.


#0122 Assessing Appropriate Discipline Interventions: Choosing Effective Discipline:A Guide for Foster Families
Workbook $6.50 Ea. 10+ $5.55 Ea.


#0123 Assessing Appropriate Discipline Interventions:
Choosing Effective Discipline:
A Guide for Foster Families: Trainer's Guide



To support and enhance the group training process, the Trainer's Guide provides:

  • information on adults as learners;
  • suggested training format;
  • specific trainer's tips in support of the workbook content;
  • a set of transparency masters for the overhead projector or as a guide for preparing flip charts;
  • a CD contaning the overhead masters in a PowerPoint presentation and a full color certificate of participation in .pdf format;
  • a generic invitation to the training and a certificate of completion along with an evaluation form both designed to be reproduced and used by the trainer - all integrated within the workbook's content.

In addition, a copy of the workbook Assessing Appropriate Discipline Interventions: Choosing Effective Discipline: A Guide for Foster Families is included with the Trainer's Guide. #0123 Trainer's Guide $25.00 Ea.