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Dr. Jeffery Bruns, (Psychologist, Lecturer, and Author) |
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completing my work in Special Education working with abnormal child
behaviors, I have been working in the field of
public education and in private clinics as a behavioral therapist,
diagnostician and consultant. Eight of these years have been spent
researching and developing programs for child discipline and management
by adopting an industry-based standard of achievement. I spent two
years researching two fortune 500 companies, two fledging corporations
and various successful family operated businesses to determine what
business expected from students graduating from school into industry
and what made the individual within the system quest for excellence
and succeed. Finding successful common denominators at all levels
of business management I took these standards of industry and adapted
them to classroom management. The results clearly stated the direction
and theme of my work, quoted from lecture:
If children are destined to live their adult years in the world of industry—they will leave home and school someday—then the systems I’d experienced and observed in the school and homes were artificial. We can best prepare our kids for success by finding systems that work, all the time. Not artificial systems that may only pay for a little while, but universal systems that children can use successfully throughout their entire lives. Attitude and step by step management worked in business. Follow the steps and you win; fail and you lose. It was a concrete system. Developing a business attitude in a behavior management system became clearer. The principles of learning in the home and in the school needed to follow the same principles that existed in business. After all, that’s where the child is destined. Our job as parents and teachers to ensure that our children will be able to live their lives successfully in the real world after we parents and teachers have said our farewells. If they can’t, then we’ve failed and all the excuses won’t change it. Since 1986 I have acted as a behavioral consultant for isolated San Francisco area schools. Some San Francisco Bay Area schools have adopted my programs. Bill Honig, Superintendent of Public Instruction of California, has awarded me for my outstanding work with discipline in the school. The increased demand for my program, prompted me to spend 3 years compiling my research into a book for parents, The Defiant Ones, A Manual for raising Kids, and field testing the results. The book has been published by Calgre Press, Pacific Palisades, CA. The next year a video was produced by Public Broadcasting at CBS studios in Hollywood, CA to accompany the book. The book is written for parents with kids from toddlers to teenagers who have ever wondered why their child should turn to them rather than to drugs and suicide. THE DEFIANT ONES, book and video is a record and a guide for these parents to a program that is working successfully in the home and classroom to change these hostilities among our kids. To produce the necessary initiative in the classroom and in the home, I show kids how they can get wheat they want and be who they want to be by adopting an industry-based standard of achievement. Kids learn how to take responsibility for their actions. I also discuss why our educational system is not able to offer the same success as an alternative and why all too often some parents realize too late the mistakes they made bringing up their children. The impacts of my programs have initiated the opportunity to be a guest speaker before various groups. I have been asked to speak for a branch of the California young republicans: Kids and Drugs: What Can We Do? And for Saks Fifth Avenue on, How to Win The Game. I am the author of 1 other book on child behavior which is due for publication in the Fall, What’s that Mean? How to read a child before they speak. I am on the board of directors of an educational publishing company as a consultant. The books and works have elicited praise and testimonials from parents and professionals; Psychiatrists, psychologists, principals, superintendents of schools, social workers, and teachers. Since the mid 90’s I have been the director for the Parent Intervention Clinic in Alamo, Ca. The clinic serves the family needs of identification and remediation of child behavior management and learning disabilities. Interventions encompass the family and the school as well as the individual’s needs. I work on corporate management teams to assist in motivational growth by altering patterns of ineffective behavior. Jeffery M. Bruns 2003-Current Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP 2662) A.E.T. Neuropsychological Assessment Counseling social emotional issues. Remedial Services: Learning Disabled, Autism, Aspergers, Behavior modification. 1999-Current University Lecturer: Chapman University, Orange, California. Teaching graduate courses to students enrolled in School Psychology Certification. 1991-Current Behavioral Analyst/Educational Therapist, Parent Intervention Clinic, Alamo, California. Assessment, diagnosis, remediation of learning disabled and remedial students and home and school behavior program implementation and monitoring, interventions for dysfunctional families with serious emotional problems. 1988-Current Behavioral Psychologist, AUSD, Antioch, California. Function as a consultant regarding behavioral, emotional, social, and educational factors influencing the learning and development of students. Implement school based interventions to enhance student’s educational development, and social adjustment and behavior. Select, administer, and interpret the results of diagnostic tools in an educationally relevant manner. Assess students to determine appropriate educational placement. Participate in in-service training to upgrade professional skills. Learning Handicapped Specialist, Hillcrest Elementary School, Crockett, California. Complete responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis and remediation of learning disabled and remedial students. 1982-83 Learning Handicapped Specialist, Alhambra High School, Martinez, California. Complete responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of learning disabled and remedial students. 1981-82 Learning Handicapped Specialist, Fern Ridge Junior High School, Elmira, Oregon. 1980-81 Learning Handicapped Specialist, West Valley Junior High School, Yakima, Washington. 1979-80 Title 1 Reading Specialist, Triangle Lake School, Blachly, Oregon. 1/79-6/79 Remedial Adult Education, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon. I’ve completed books, research, and 30 years of active work, public and private in the field of Behavioral Science. Education: Academic/Practicum Distinctions Writing Professional Books THE DEFIANT ONES; A Manual for Raising Kids. Published 1990. Currently in major bookstores and libraries. A Chapman University Textbook for Class 602 Behavior Support: The science of behavior management for Special Education teachers and School Psychologists. WHAT’S THAT MEAN? - How a salesperson can use neurolinguistic processing (NLP) to close the sale. (2005) Awards 1988- Founded Home/School Consulting Clinic: Parent Intervention Clinic. Working with kids, home/school, suffering major academic problems due to either personal behavior disorders or dysfunctional family. Works with schools to restructure schools discipline. 1983-88 Crocket, CA. Hillcrest Elementary Special Day Class Educator, Mentor Teacher, and Classroom Consultant. Written book for district based on behavior programs developed and implemented at JSUSD. This book serves as a guide for incoming teachers. 1990- Public Broadcasting Video Lecture Series On-Going Education 2001 - |
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