Corporal Punishment And Behavior Analysis

A stitch in time saves nine. This is a famous proverb which means to deal with problems now than to act later. Similarly managing behavior and emotional disorders should start in childhood rather than waiting for them to escalate out of proportion later on in adolescence or adulthood. The question is what is the best way of managing bad behavior? In most societies corporal punishment has been one of the interventions used to address behavioral disorders and emotional behaviors. What is it that leads some children into behaving the way they do, be it negative or positive behavior. Why is it that some children will generally exhibit good behavior others do not? In trying to understand behavior, a number of behavioral psychologists have endeavored to study and understand human behavior from childhood to adulthood. Anderson (2012) explains that children are considered normal when they conform to certain standards that are set by adults of the society. She further explains that some children behave contrary to what is expected for their age and stage of development. These abnormal behaviors are referred to as emotional and behavioral disorders. Some characteristics of emotional and behavioral disorders as described by the American International Journal of Contemporary Research (2012) include being: Physically abusive to others,
This makes the children more defiant and aggressive and puts them at risk in resolving anger. This point agrees with the Michigan Department of Education (1992) which aligns corporate punishment to demonstrating that, the use of force is a method of reducing conflict. They explain that this form of punishment is effective in the short term but in the long term does not lead to alternative problem solving methods. This has been attributed to high levels of school vandalism and juvenile