BEHAVIORAL

SHAPING TOOLS
REFRESHER
SEMINAR
Robert L Mapang, RN
April 2, 2025 II Puerto Princesa City Jail-MD
Behavior Management
OBJECTIVES :
1. To introduce the concept of behavior management
through the use of various behavior shaping tools
2. To institutionalize the practice of behavior shaping
tools
3. To highlight the importance of behavior
management in relation to other TCMP components
towards attitudinal change among residents.
Pre-Morning Meeting
Duration/Frequency: Fifteen minutes daily
Participants : Senior Residents, Counselor
OBJECTIVES:
• Discuss the attitude of the house the previous day.
• Formulate solutions to the concerns discussed & to
be executed during the day.
• Discuss activities to be engage in the Morning Meeting
• Validation of Pull up
Morning Meeting
Duration/Frequency: One hour daily
Participants : All Residents, Counselor

OBJECTIVES:
• To start the day right
• Attended by the whole community- dorm and lasts for
an hour.
Parts of the Morning Meeting
I. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT/CONCERNS
A. Opening Prayer (Ecumenical)
B. Singing of the National Anthem (Flag must be displayed)
C. TC Philosophy
D. Announcements:
Staff (Director -Warden, Ass. Director – Deputy Warden,
Counselor and other personnel
Residents (Coordinators – Chairman, Dept. Heads –
Kitchen, BOD, Expediters etc.)
Report on Dorm Inspection by Chief Expediter
Parts of the Morning Meeting cont..
E. Community Concerns
Pull ups/elaboration
Affirmations
F. Concept of the Day
G. Verse of the Day
Parts of the Morning Meeting cont..
II. UP-RITUALS
H. News casting (Local, National, International, Sports and
Weather News
I. Entertainment (Choose either Song, Dance, Skit, Humorous
Story
J. Community Singing (Any song that has relation to the
Concept of the Day
K. Greetings
 HIERARCHY OF
BEHAVIOR SHAPING
TOOLS
(BST)
Behavioral Shaping Tools
• Pre Morning Meeting
• Morning Meeting
• Talk to
• Pull up
• Dealt with
• Haircut
• Learning Experiences/Bans
• General meeting
• Expulsion
 Expulsion

General
Meeting
Learning
Experience/Bans
Haircut

Dealt With

Pull Up

Talk To
TALK TO
Is an outright correction done by any
Outright correction
member of the TC community to another
member who Friendly reminders/advice
has done a minor infraction but
is not awareDone
of it. in a positive way
OBJECTIVES:
Done privately
1) Evoke awareness
2) Avoid committing the same mistake
 “PEP” Talk
Puna – infraction/nilabag na rules
Epekto – base sa nilabag sa rules
Payo – naayon sa puna o infraction
PULL UP
Is done as a result of lack, missed or
lapsesDone when
in awareness in a violator
resident. All is
members of theunknown
community are responsible to
pull-up minor infractions done by peers.
Encourages the following:
Validated
1) Honesty
first prior to bringing
up inawareness
2) Demeanor the morning meeting
3) Owning of one’s mistakes
Important reminders during pull-up:
• The resident receiving the pull-up is
expected to listen without saying a word,
assume that is valid, quickly display the
corrected behavior and express gratitude
in receiving it.
• Too many elaborations are discourage
• Focus should be given to the behavior
and not the person
Important reminders during pull-up: cont..
• It is meant to raise awareness and not to
punish or embarrass the violator.
• Personal attacks, shaming or the use of racist
language are strictly forbidden during pull-
ups.
• It should be emphasized that pull-ups are
done out of responsible love and concern to
avoid creating negative feelings during the
process.
DEALT WITH
Is done when negative behaviors or
infractions to the House Rules/Norms are
done for the second time of the same offense
by a resident.

A PANEL COMPOSED OF THE FOLLOWING:

Senior resident
Peer
Friend
Dealt With formation

Serious and stern warning to

Resident subjected
to Dealt With

the violator
Deliberation should be
Senior
monitored
Peer by
Resident the staff
Friend
HAIRCUT
Is done when negative behaviors or
infractions to the House Rules/Norms are
done for the third time or more or for the
first time grave offense by a resident.
It is carefully planned and structured
verbal reprimand given by a Staff with four
other residents – Senior Resident, Peer, Big
Brother, and Department Head.
HAIRCUT cont..

PROCESS:
• Investigated infraction
• Discussed & decided by the Disciplinary board
(Book II, Rule 2, Section 4, BJMP Manual)
• Carefully planned & structured verbal reprimand
by the haircut team
• The staff or peer who booked the haircut should
not be part of the team so as to avoid bias or
subjectivity.
HAIRCUT cont..
PROCESS:
• Before the group calls in the person, they will
discuss among themselves the order of speakers,
how intense the haircut will be and what sanctions
will be given if any.
• The resident is called inside asked if he knows the
reason for his appearance.
• Asked to sit and remain silent to enable him/her
absorb all the advices
HAIRCUT cont..
PROCESS:
• Each member of the panel is given ample time to
express himself without interruption from the
other members
• The tone is more serious and can be loud, more
harsh and exaggerated.
• Done to induce anxiety and eventually change the
person’s behavior.
• Learning Experience (LE) will be imposed after
haircut
Haircut Team Structure & Composition

Resident
Subject to Haircut

Staff Senior Resident Senior Resident Peer Big Brother

LEARNING EXPERIENCE (LE)
In an action or activity given to resident
who was subjected to Haircut or General
Meeting who did an infraction to correct or
modify a behavior.
It is a task oriented, written task or peer
interaction.
Action given to a resident who was subjected to
haircut who did an infraction to correct or modify a
behavior.
LEARNING EXPERIENCE (LE) cont..
• Remind the person of the negative attitude without
compromising his human dignity.
• Not to stigmatize the person but to motivate him to
make restitutions for the wrong doings he committed
and redeem himself in the community.
CATEGORIES OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES:
A. Task-Oriented LE
• Grounds & Landscaping
• Cleaning & Maintenance
• Time Keeping (wake up calls, lights out calls
B. Written Task
• Composition or Essay
C. Peer Interaction
• Reading & reporting of topic
• Announcement (Morning Meeting or House Meeting)
• Bans
BANS
Are sanctions to members who commit
repeatedly infractions or violation to the
Cardinal Rules by prohibiting, disallowing or
limiting an activity or affiliation to a group.
It somehow curtals some freedom of
movement and association.
BANS cont..
Examples of Bans:
• Regulation of visiting privileges
• Banned from attending entertainment and recreational
activities
GENERAL MEETING
• Response to serious, often taboo
behaviors endangering community;
• Repeated breach to the Cardinal Rules;
• Issue should be discussed with the
community to point out to the violator
the negative effect the behavior had on
the community.
GENERAL MEETING cont..

OFFENSE INCLUDES:
Sexual acting-out with a fellow resident,
Taking drugs,
Engaging in physical fight with another resident.
Stealing
Smoking
Behaviors that pose severe threat to community
GENERAL MEETING cont..

Procedures:
Called and led by a senior member of the staff,
usually the Director.
 Those guilty of the offense are asked to sit in a
prospect chair.
 The Director sets the tone of the meeting and leads
the community in an open expression of
opinions and feelings.
GENERAL MEETING cont..

Procedures:
The Director holds the community accountable for
the slip of its members as each is considered his
“brother’s keeper” .
The Director opens the floor for feedbacks, inviting
the community for self-reflection and
accountability.
GENERAL MEETING cont..
Resolutions:
After the violators made their statements and offer
commitments, the Director will mark the closure of
the issue and allow for processing of the events that
transpired and provide appropriate emotional
support to the violators who have just been subjected
to intense emotional experience.

Sanction will then be given to the violators.

 General Meeting Formation

Subject
Residents
Director/
Staff

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EXPULSION
Transfer of an incorrigible resident
(threat to community) to other jail facility
by the director upon recommendation of the
Disciplinary board with an appropriate
court order
OTHER TOOLS

Commendation:
• Public Commendation
- Public awards, given responsibility (Ex. Cleanest
dorm of the month )

• Individual Commendation
- One-to-One acknowledgement (Ex. Most affirmed
resident)
TALK TO
PULL UP
Dealt With
HAIRCUT
General
Meeting
 “No matter how many
mistakes you make or
how slow you progress,
you are still
way ahead of everyone
- Tony Robbins

who isn’t trying.”