Setting Consequences: Positive Discipline Techniques Examine child behaviors, positive methods for shaping conduct, and the ways children act in various situations. Participants share experiences and approaches with problematic behaviors. Learn how to give consequences, the principles of effective consequences, the top ten positive discipline principles and ten techniques to shape children's behaviors. Leave class with ways to apply the presented material in actual situations encountered in roles as parents, foster parents, and group home staff through discussion and exercises. Instructor Stephen Kane works in family foster care in the East Bay facilitating interactions among youth, foster parents and birth families. Prior to involvement in foster care, Stephen designed and directed a new program for transitional aged youth with mental health and substance abuse conditions in San Francisco. Stephen has also provided counseling in |