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 Date

1996

Publication Title

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

Volume

18

Issue/Number

2

First Page

35

ISSN

0731-7107

Last Page

40

Abstract/Excerpt

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

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