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How Exactly Did You Do That?  Supporting Metacognition for Self-Regulation and Goal Management”

 

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• Metacognition• Self-regulation• Goal management

• Metacognition

• Self-regulation• Goal management

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Prefrontalcortex

Strategic Behavioral Inquiry

• How exactly did you do that?– Everybody’s doing the best he/she can– Every behavior problem is either• Skills deficit• Contingency problem

Curious compassionate nonjudgmental evaluation

Objectives of Strategic Behavioral Inquiry

• Specific behavioral strategy• What was the feeling-goal?• Motivational level on a scale from 1-10

Benefits of Strategic Behavioral Inquiry

• Affirms the value of clients’ unique internal experience

• Emphasizes the culture of self-regulation• Encourages metacognition

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Assumptions of Strategic Behavioral Inquiry

• Everybody’s doing the best they can• Behavior is not incomprehensible or random• Behavior follows patterns which reveal themselves to the curious observer free of prejudice or blame or theory

How to do Strategic Behavioral Inquiry

“How exactly did you do that?”

Personal Application

• What have you done that you are truly proud  of…and how exactly did you do that?

• What can you do today that you were not capable of a year ago?

• What bad habit persists?   And How Exactly Do You Do That?

Fall in Love with the Truth

• Self-monitor and collect data:– How long does your morning routine take, exactly?– How much time – exactly – do you need to complete 

expense forms?– How, exactly, do you follow through on commitments 

to others and not to yourself?• Learn from your To-Do list– Which things are not getting completed?– How – exactly – are these not getting completed?  How 

do you do that?

Clinical Application

• Who in your clinic or classroom is demonstrating remarkable “resilience” – persistence despite significant obstacles?  And how, exactly, does he/she do that?

• What recurring behavioral problem is showing up in your clinic or classroom?

• Note:  we aren’t asking “why did you do that,” but rather “how exactly did you do that.”

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