Read My Fingertips: A Procedure for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Time-Out with Argumentative Children

Author(s)

David Reitman, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Ronald S. Drabman, University of Mississippi Medical CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

ISSN

0731-7107

Publication Date

1996

Abstract

Commonly occurring problems in implementing time-out are described together with a procedure for improving the effectiveness of time-out with verbally noncompliant children. The “Read My Fingertips” procedure is intended to reduce arguments and decrease aversive interactions between parents and their children during time-out. This procedure involves counting on one's fingertips each time a word is spoken by the child and equating the number of fingers counted with additional minutes in time-out. It is hoped that this procedure will facilitate the use of time-out with verbally non-compliant children.

DOI

10.1300/J019v18n02_05

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

35

Last Page

40

NSUWorks Citation

Reitman, D., Drabman, R. S. (1996). Read My Fingertips: A Procedure for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Time-Out with Argumentative Children. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 18(2), 35-40.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/250