From professional principles to everyday practice

Predictability through visual structure

The daily plan gives children and young people a simple, visual overview of the day. The weekly plan creates a recognisable structure from week to week, while the daily plan can be adjusted when things change.

The calendar gives an overview of what lies further ahead. Appointments, visits, activities and other events become available to children and young people as well as to the staff or guardians around them.

Visible goals

Goals and subgoals should not only exist in the office and in conversations between staff or guardians. Children and young people therefore have access to their own goals directly in Sjokos. That makes it clearer what they are working toward, and subgoals can be tied directly to the content of the daily plan.

A goal of taking part more in the community can, for example, have "join shared meals" as a subgoal. That in turn can be connected to the meals already in the daily plan. In this way the long-term development work is tied to concrete situations in everyday life.

Many opportunities to reinforce desired behaviour

Sjokos builds, among other things, on principles from token economies. Instead of children and young people working only toward one big reinforcement far in the future, Sjokos can be earned throughout the whole day.

That gives many new chances to succeed. If Sjokos are not earned in one situation, that does not have to define the rest of the day. New opportunities come along.

A digital system also makes it easier for staff or guardians to follow up positive reinforcement systematically, especially when several people follow up the same child.

Participation within fixed boundaries

Staff or guardians can set the boundaries for the day while the child gets real choices within them. In the daily plan, for example, you can add moments where the child chooses between activities that have already been made available.

The child can also send requests for their own activities and events in the calendar. That gives room to take initiative and plan ahead, while staff or parents approve the request before it is added.

Motivation is individual

What creates motivation differs from person to person. That is why both what earns Sjokos, and what the earned Sjokos can be spent on, can be adapted to the individual.

Together, staff or guardians and the child can build a menu of things, activities and experiences. The child then decides for themselves what the Sjokos are spent on.

Make progress visible

Sjokos gives staff and guardians statistics on registered goal achievement and activity. That can make it easier to see development and patterns over time, and give a better basis for judging whether goals or follow-up should be adjusted.