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Help Your Kids Succeed: Introducing the SMART Family System

SMART Family SystemDoes your home become a battle zone when it's time for the kids to study and complete their school assignments? If your answer is yes, you're certainly not alone. Many parents experience difficulties with motivating their children to complete tasks that they don't perceive as being "fun." There's no need to engage in family combat any longer, however, because we've created the perfect solution for you. This fall, we will celebrate the release of the long-awaited parenting software that Dr. Jay Tarnow, Dr. Myah Gittelson, and Allen Wrinkle, MIS have been developing: the SMART Family System. It's a web-based program that is designed to equip parents with the tools necessary to raise responsible and independent children. The SMART program teaches self-management skills, a concept that has been utilized with success for over a decade at the Tarnow Center for Self-Management.

Using the SMART system, you'll be able to easily create a customized positive reinforcement framework that's simple to use and makes it fun and rewarding for children and adolescents to exhibit good behavior.

Using the SMART system you will be able to:

  • Choose weekly and long-term behavioral goals using our extensive sample list—or add your own
  • Track daily points earned in a user-friendly interface
  • Select rewards that your children would like to earn
  • Set privilege levels
  • Provide an interactive "dashboard" for parents and teachers, enabling a truly collaborative treatment process
  • Coordinate care with divorced parents or multiple caregivers
  • Customize a variety of behavioral contracts

SMART Goals

All goals are not created equal. When choosing goals for children and adolescents, it's important to ensure that they are SMART:

Specific
Manageable
Achievable
Reinforceable
Trackable

The SMART Family System provides you with all the information you need to create goals unique to your family, or you can choose from an extensive list of pre-defined SMART goals.

Who shoud use the SMART Family System?

The SMART Family System is an effective tool for a wide range

of families, but it is especially useful for children/adolescents with behavioral disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Tourette's Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Asperger's Syndome, Conduct Disorders, Substance Use Disorder, and Learning Disorders. Any children who are required to take medication regularly could also greatly benefit from the program because self-management skills are important for developing the discipline necessary to adhere to daily routines.

Since the SMART program is web-based, therapist assistance can be provided remotely. This makes it a great solution for divorced parents, families who reside in rural areas, traveling parents, and families with parents serving in the Armed Forces.

How does the program work?

After signing up for the SMART Family System program, you will be guided through a step-by-step process that enables you to easily set up behavioral plans for each of your children.

Prior to beginning the behavioral program, you will complete our in-depth Self-management questionnaire. This thorough and innovative tool examines each child's functioning on numerous levels (e.g. organization, impulse regulation, empathy, sharing) and identifies problem areas.

Based on your responses to the self-management questionnaire, the program will recommend age-appropriate target behaviors for each child. You can select as many of these behaviors as you would like to be included in the weekly behavioral plan, or you can add your own customized target behaviors. All of the points computations are performed automatically by the SMART software, which makes tracking a breeze. You simply need to indicate whether each target behavior was completed, and the program does the rest.

The SMART Family System also suggests an extensive list of age-appropriate rewards and privilege levels, enabling you to choose rewards that your children would like to earn. You can even add your own customized rewards. In addition, several behavioral contracts are included with the program, making it easy for you to clearly define expectations as your child progresses through each developmental stage. You can easily customize these contracts so that they're precisely suited to your needs.

To make the process even more collaborative, you can invite therapists, teachers, and anyone else you'd like to participate in the program, giving them online access to track your child's progress. A calmer, more manageable household is within your reach—with the SMART Family System, you'll have a powerful, valuable tool that can help you parent more effectively.

For more information, please visit www.SMARTFamilySystem.com, or call us at 888-SMART-51.

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