78. SIB2 - Responding to Intense Head-Banging

Becoming Centered · Sep 3, 2026 · 32m

Episode 78 of the Becoming Centered Podcast is the second part of an arc focusing on self-injurious behaviors among children and youth living at a residential treatment center. The first part of this episode continues to look at relatively light head-banging, but specifically among kids with severe and profound autism. As part of that, there's a brief description of how to conduct a Functional Behavioral Analysis as a technique for responding to kids who are largely non-verbal. This episode then moves on to look at intense head-banging among emotionally disturbed kids and kids with psychosis…