Barry Belvins is Executive Director of High Frontier in Texas. He was interviewed about using positive peer culture by Lon Woodbury and Elizabeth McGhee. The interview was on Parent Choices for Struggling Teens which is hosted on L.A. Talk Radio. Barry explained how the process works. The other teens are a part of the community. The teens counsel each other as part of the healing process. Barry has had considerable experience with PPC. He believed that this form of therapy is more effective than a residential program that requires strict rules.
The host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, Lon Woodbury, is an Independent Educational Consultant and publishes the highly informative Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-Host Elizabeth McGhee, the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico, has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with adolescents.
Who is Barry Blevins
Barry Blevins has run High Frontier, the treatment center in West Texas, for more than 27 years. He graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration then later qualified to become a licensed child care administrator in the State of Texas.
Although Counter-intuitive, Using Positive Peer Culture Works Well
Barry Blevins discussed how using Positive Peer Culture worked better than the traditional peer pressure process. Barry strongly believed that behavioral rules could become a distraction from the emotional healing process. Moreover, these rules were often used to mask a behavior. By not hiding behind such a structure, it was much easier to see the root of the problem.
Positive peer culture was about students making and abiding by agreements. This took the pressure off the staff. With no rules to enforce, it removed the power struggle. Students liked the results. It made them feel empowered. They felt as if they had a choice in the matter. Students comprehend their own bad behavior when a peer points it out to them. Adults could not focus on being facilitators. They did not have to be authoritarian controllers. They were not there to warn or punish bad behavior.
Since co-host Liz McGhee had actually worked for Barry for a number of years, she joined in the discussion on using positive peer culture by talking about students had to realize that they were there to share their concern for their peers rather than to try to control them.
The host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, Lon Woodbury, is an Independent Educational Consultant and publishes the highly informative Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-Host Elizabeth McGhee, the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico, has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with adolescents.
Who is Barry Blevins
Barry Blevins has run High Frontier, the treatment center in West Texas, for more than 27 years. He graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration then later qualified to become a licensed child care administrator in the State of Texas.
Although Counter-intuitive, Using Positive Peer Culture Works Well
Barry Blevins discussed how using Positive Peer Culture worked better than the traditional peer pressure process. Barry strongly believed that behavioral rules could become a distraction from the emotional healing process. Moreover, these rules were often used to mask a behavior. By not hiding behind such a structure, it was much easier to see the root of the problem.
Positive peer culture was about students making and abiding by agreements. This took the pressure off the staff. With no rules to enforce, it removed the power struggle. Students liked the results. It made them feel empowered. They felt as if they had a choice in the matter. Students comprehend their own bad behavior when a peer points it out to them. Adults could not focus on being facilitators. They did not have to be authoritarian controllers. They were not there to warn or punish bad behavior.
Since co-host Liz McGhee had actually worked for Barry for a number of years, she joined in the discussion on using positive peer culture by talking about students had to realize that they were there to share their concern for their peers rather than to try to control them.
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Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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