Positive Strategies for Dealing with and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. Dr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: 1) Managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, 2) Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, 3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs, and 4) Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
