Barry Belvins spoke to Lon Woodbury and Elizabeth McGhee about the many benefits of using positive peer culture on a weekly radio show hosted on L.A. Talk Radio. Barry explained how other teens are considered to be a part of the community and help their fellow teens overcome behavioral problems. He believed that forming a community was essential to the entire healing process. In fact, PPC was more effective than rule-based residential programs.
The radio show is hosted by Lon Woodbury. He is an Independent Educational Consultant. He is the founder of Struggling Teens and the publisher of Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families in crisis for many years as they cope with their struggling teens, and has been in the business since 1984. Meanwhile, the co-host of the show, Elizabeth McGhee,has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with teens. She is the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico.
About Barry Blevins
High Frontier is located in West Texas, and Barry has been instrumental in the success of this co-ed residential treatment center for more than twenty-seven years. His current position is executive director. After he graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration, he became a licensed child care administrator in Texas.
The Many Advantages of Using Positive Peer Culture
The guest of the radio show talked how using PPC worked much better than the methods most therapeutic boarding schools were using, including the traditional peer pressure process. He strongly believed that behavioral rules could become highly unproductive. They simply distracted from the emotional healing process instead of directly working on them. In fact, he went so far as to say that he considered these rules were frequently used to mask a behavior. Too many rules was a process that avoided problems. Using PPC, it was actually much easier to get to 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.
Liz McGhee had trained under Barry for many years, and she added to the discussion on the benefits of using PPC by pointing out students that students had to realize that they were there for each other and were not monitors for their peers, just colleagues.
The radio show is hosted by Lon Woodbury. He is an Independent Educational Consultant. He is the founder of Struggling Teens and the publisher of Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families in crisis for many years as they cope with their struggling teens, and has been in the business since 1984. Meanwhile, the co-host of the show, Elizabeth McGhee,has more than 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience with teens. She is the Director of Admissions for Sandhill Child Development Center, New Mexico.
About Barry Blevins
High Frontier is located in West Texas, and Barry has been instrumental in the success of this co-ed residential treatment center for more than twenty-seven years. His current position is executive director. After he graduated from Sul Ross State University with a Masters of Public Administration, he became a licensed child care administrator in Texas.
The Many Advantages of Using Positive Peer Culture
The guest of the radio show talked how using PPC worked much better than the methods most therapeutic boarding schools were using, including the traditional peer pressure process. He strongly believed that behavioral rules could become highly unproductive. They simply distracted from the emotional healing process instead of directly working on them. In fact, he went so far as to say that he considered these rules were frequently used to mask a behavior. Too many rules was a process that avoided problems. Using PPC, it was actually much easier to get to 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.
Liz McGhee had trained under Barry for many years, and she added to the discussion on the benefits of using PPC by pointing out students that students had to realize that they were there for each other and were not monitors for their peers, just colleagues.
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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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