Identify target behaviours. It is best to monitor one behaviour at a time. This can be anything you choose, from dietary choices to how often you get distracted. Choose the most important/exciting behaviour and monitor that first. Observe the quality and quantity of target behaviours. When you observe behaviour quality, you reflect on your own experience of a particular behaviour, including how that behaviour makes you feel. However, it's essential that you also take behaviour quantity into account. In other words, you should measure how often a behaviour occurs and for how long. Observing behaviour quantity is critical for making behavioural changes. Say you want to reduce your smoking. You may think you only smoke a couple of cigarettes a day, but after counting the behaviour occurrences, realize you smoke an entire pack over the day! You might reflect on your response to cigarette cravings when thinking about behaviour quality. Do you give in easily, or are you able to practice self-control? Build-in rewards. You can reinforce behaviours that you want to exhibit by building tips into your plan. Each time you observe yourself behaving the way you prefer, you reward yourself. Make the reward proportional to the behaviour you want to exhibit. For example, an appropriate reward for spending an hour studying could be taking a walk.

• Quickly getting annoyed or nervous. • They often appear angry. • Blaming others. • They are refusing to follow the rules or questioning authority. • They were arguing and throwing temper tantrums. • Having difficulty handling frustration.

Behavioural symptoms are persistent or repetitive behaviours that are unusual, disruptive, inappropriate, or cause problems. Aggression, criminal behaviour, defiance, drug use, hostility, inappropriate sexual behaviour, inattention, secrecy, and self-harm is behavioural symptoms. In children, behavioural symptoms may indicate behavioural disorders, such as to conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder. Substance abuse is another potential cause of behavioural symptoms or a complication of conditions that cause behavioural symptoms. If it is a complication of another state, substance abuse can worsen behavioural symptoms. Behavioural symptoms can occasionally result from severe medical conditions with life-threatening complications.

Oftentimes, adolescents with behavioral issues were raised in an unhealthy environment as children. They may have experienced severe emotional neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Or, they just witnessed too much family conflict (for example, parents yelling or fighting with each other constantly).