Training day document
My visit to you is agreed for DATE and I have agreed to give you advice for a full day for a fee of £495 (Cheque received today payable to "Behaviour Change Consultancy") there are no other charges or expenses connected with my involvement for this day.

Not an easy process
Children and adolescents are time-consuming and the amount of time that a particular child needs cannot be defined objectively. They are incapable of modifying their need for your supervision and attention because of your busy life. The success of your work with them following this day of training depends on your acceptance that your child(ren) are as trapped by their behaviour as you are and that the solution to your child(ren)'s problems are located in changes to the responses that you have been previously using. In other words if you do not carefully change how you speak to them and what you say their behaviour will not change. It is inefficient (and not fair) to ask your children to control and change their behaviour when you are not consistently in control of yours.

The speed of success you achieve will be directly related to your improving ability to modify your own behaviour. I strive not to gratuitously offend my clients but I believe my near 100% success rate is based on "telling it as it is".

Confidentiality All the discussions that we have are kept completely confidential
Warwick Dyer….……….…….……….for Behaviour Change Consultancy

Evaluation I always evaluate the full intervention work that I do - so I need a commitment from you that you will complete a simple evaluation process in two months or at the point where you feel the intervention is complete.

Disclaimer You will be asked to sign this and a separate disclaimer document accepting that you retain sole responsibility for your own safety and the safety of each member of your family and accept my advice on a nil-liability basis.

We / I have read and accept all the points made in this document and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions and accept your advice on the nil liability basis described above. We / I agree always to consider for ourselves our children's emotional and physical well-being and safety (and our own) and make entirely our own decisions about what is the best way to respond to our children during and following all our conversations. I confirm that no other person or agency has legal guardianship of any of the children concerned.

We have read and accept all the points made in this document and agree to be bound by its terms.

I confirm that no other person or agency has legal guardianship of any of the children concerned
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Behaviour Change Consultancy 24 Rochdale, Harold Road, London, SE19 3TF
0208 653 9768       0845 430 5340

Although all of my paying clients have found my suggestions helpful (only three of all my previous clients did not go on to complete their interventions successfully), there will always be circumstances particular to your children (whom I usually never actually see) of which I am not aware. I work solely on the information given to me by you and do not do any observations to see what is happening for myself. This, and the fact that my skills are practically acquired - I have many years of experience but no formal qualifications in this area - leaves a large possibility for misunderstanding and error and must leave the responsibility for whatever happens within your family during and following my involvement entirely with you as your children's parents.

By signing this document you are stating that you have told me about all the previous medical/professional involvement with your child(ren) and that these professionals have been informed about my involvement with you and are happy that your child(ren)'s behaviour can be safely handled with the use of rewards and sanctions (punishments). I do not accept responsibility for any adverse occurrence that might be deemed to have stemmed from your attempts to implement advice received from me. You will have to accept all responsibility for any and all outcomes that result from your decision to use, or not use, suggestions I have made. I agree to suggest alternative strategies or augment strategies that you have used in the past. I agree also to discuss your implementation of the strategies. It is your responsibility to make up your own mind whether or not any strategy suggested by me is likely to be effective and whether it is safe to use as circumstances change.

Parents of children with serious, violent, intimidatory behaviour are often advised by Child Psychiatrists to always avoid confrontation this might mean giving the child what it wants. This advice could prevent a serious violent act from occurring. Where a child is seriously disturbed this may well be the best current advice.

If the problems are merely associated with behaviour management issues then others think that without confronting aggressively the way to proceed is to not to accede to demands that are not in the best interests of the child or demands that are aggressively or rudely made. This view holds that this will prevent even more serious behaviour developing in the future. However, as we have already said, for a seriously disturbed child the Child Psychiatrist's advice may often be the safest and best option.

I work with you only on the assurance given to me by you that you have sought professional advice and that you have been advised that none of your children are seriously disturbed and that they are in need of, and can cope with, changes in "behaviour management".

You need to make sure that you have received and will continue to receive the best professional advice as your intervention with the children proceeds so that you and I can be sure none of your children are seriously disturbed.

Although, to date, there has never been a serious adverse outcome from any of my interventions, since I never actually see the children of the parents with whom I work and rely entirely on second hand accounts of what is happening between you and your children I am never, and can never be, considered accountable for their or your emotional or physical safety or for any subsequent adverse outcome.

Please sign and indicate that you accept my involvement with your family on the nil liability basis described here. Although I have years of experience I have no medical or psychological qualification and you must keep this fact firmly in mind and always consider for yourself your children's emotional and physical well-being and safety (and your own) and make entirely your own decisions about what is the best way to respond to your children during and following all our conversations. This document is intended to act as a disclaimer and, if you sign it, you waive all rights to any legal redress for any adverse outcome that you might wish to claim in the future to have resulted from my involvement with your family and is intended to specify that you take complete responsibility for all outcomes that result from your decision to accept advice from me.

We (I) have read and accept all the points made in this document and agree to be bound by its terms. I confirm that no other person or agency has legal guardianship of any of the children concerned



Signed__________________________            Signed__________________________


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Relationship to child___________                        Relationship to child____________


Behaviour Change Consultancy 24 Rochdale, Harold Road, London, SE19 3TF
0208 653 9768       0845 430 5340