What Is Behavioural Therapy?
Behavioural therapy is a broad category of evidence-based psychological interventions that focus on understanding the relationship between behaviour, environment, and learning. At MIRAI Centre in Bangalore, our trained behavioural therapists use proven, structured approaches to reduce challenging behaviours, build positive skills, and improve quality of life for children and families.
Challenging behaviour is always communicating something. Our therapists take time to understand the "why" behind behaviour — the unmet need, the sensory trigger, the communication gap — before designing an intervention that addresses root causes rather than just surface symptoms.
Conditions We Address
- Autism Spectrum Disorder: Repetitive behaviours, self-injurious behaviour, tantrums, rigidity, social deficits
- ADHD: Impulsivity, hyperactivity, inattention, emotional dysregulation, organisational difficulties
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Persistent defiance, arguing, and hostility toward authority
- Anxiety Disorders: School refusal, separation anxiety, social anxiety, phobias
- Conduct Disorder: Aggressive behaviour, rule-breaking, and lack of remorse
- Selective Mutism: Refusal to speak in certain social situations due to anxiety
- Emotional and Behavioural Disorders: Poor emotional regulation, frequent meltdowns
- Self-Stimulatory Behaviours (Stimming): Managing and redirecting repetitive behaviours in autism
- Feeding Difficulties: Food refusal rooted in behavioural patterns rather than sensory issues
- Sleep Problems: Bedtime resistance, night-time waking, and sleep routine establishment
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapy
ABA is the most rigorously researched and widely recommended intervention for autism spectrum disorders. It applies principles of learning science to increase helpful behaviours and decrease those that are harmful or interfere with learning. Modern ABA at MIRAI is naturalistic, play-based, and child-led — far from the rigid, table-based approaches of the past.
Our ABA-informed approach includes:
- Verbal Behaviour (VB) Therapy: Teaching language as a functional behaviour — manding, tacting, intraverbals
- Natural Environment Teaching (NET): Learning within real-life contexts and play situations
- Discrete Trial Training (DTT): Structured teaching of specific skills in a systematic format
- Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT): Child-motivated, naturalistic ABA focusing on pivotal areas of development
- Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA): Identifying the function of challenging behaviour to design effective interventions
- Positive Behaviour Support (PBS): Systems-based approach to reduce problem behaviour through environmental modifications
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Children
For older children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, depression, or emotional regulation difficulties, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy offers proven techniques to identify and challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, develop coping strategies, and gradually face feared situations. Our therapists adapt CBT into age-appropriate, engaging formats that children can understand and apply.
Parent Behaviour Training
Parents are the most powerful agents of change in a child's life. Our parent behaviour training programmes teach families how to implement consistent strategies at home, respond effectively to challenging behaviour, reinforce positive behaviours, and create a structured, predictable environment that helps children thrive. Regular parent coaching sessions are an integral part of every behavioural therapy plan at MIRAI.
Social Skills Training
Many children with autism, ADHD, or social anxiety struggle with the unwritten rules of social interaction. Our structured social skills groups provide a safe environment to practice turn-taking, conversation, reading social cues, and making friends — skills that transfer naturally to school and community settings.
What Makes MIRAI's Behavioural Therapy Different?
- Behaviour is never labelled as "bad" — it is always understood as communication
- Every plan is built on a thorough functional assessment, not assumptions
- Therapy is conducted with warmth, dignity, and respect for each child
- Family goals and values are central to every intervention plan
- Progress is measured objectively with regular data review and plan updates