Behavioral interventions
Behavioural interventions are the use of positive or negative reinforcements to change and improve the undesired or problematic behaviour. Behavioural interventions are designed to address learning, emotional growth and to counter health related risks.
Behavioural interventions identifies the baseline measure of the problematic behaviour, including its frequency, duration and its intensity. Behavioural intervention strategies are used to change the pre-existing events to prevent the occurrence of the behaviour.
Behavioural interventions program is needed to address a student’s behavior that impedes his or her learning or that of others. At individual level, behavioural intervention encourages people who are at high risk with some particular disease to do something about it. Like smokers to quit, hypertensive to take medicine, diabetics to exercise regularly. It involves lifestyle changes to encounter the disease and fight it out.
The community level or National level behavioural interventions are implemented to control the risk of spreading diseases or health hazardous factors. Examples are, increasing taxes on cigarettes reduces consumers, movements against drink and driving reduced road accidents.