Children's Problem Behavior
All behavior, misbehavior included, has as its source a rational cause. And most often that source or cause can be found by examining the purpose the misbehavior serves the child. Because the purpose of the misbehavior is not often recognized by the parent attempts to correct the misbehavior rarely include techniques to deal with the cause. As a result discipline procedures frequently fail.

Generally speaking misbehavior comes from two sources:

1. The child is reacting to people, conditions, events or situations in his environment.
2. The child is attempting to control people, conditions, events or situations in his environment.

In his behavioral analysis of the child's problem Doctor Houle examines the many facets of these two sources and prescribes a corrective behavioral program unique to that child's behavior and its underlying sources.