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Planned ignoring is often misused because people ignore the child instead of the behavior. It only works as part of a full behavior plan that includes a functional assessment, teaching replacement skills, and reinforcement.
Planned ignoring is often misused because people ignore the child instead of the behavior. It only works as part of a full behavior plan that includes a functional assessment, teaching replacement skills, and reinforcement.
So I want to talk about planned ignoring. There are a bunch of comments on a behavior plan flowchart that mentioned planned ignoring, and there's a lot of context and discussion that has to happen around that strategy and that phrase. So in general, I kind of hate the phrase planned ignoring because I think it's used incorrectly a lot. It points people in the wrong direction of what you're actually supposed to be doing. Removing attention from a problem behavior can be part of a comprehensive function-based behavior plan. But we have to do that while teaching a replacement behavior. We have to be teaching and reinforcing a new positive pro-social communicative behavior that actually gets the child what they want. That can be used in combination with removing attention. Planned ignoring can be technically removing attention, but what I hate about the word ignoring is that it insinuates that we're ignoring the child. We're not ignoring the child. We're just ignoring that behavior, removing attention from that behavior. It's part of a full-blown behavior plan that requires an FBA and looking at all pieces and components.
