Nick Petrovic

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Who is Nick Petrovic?

Nick Petrovic is a well known psychologist and researcher, with a background in psychological profiling, personality profiling, child psychology, management consulting and personality disorders. He has worked for both government and non-government organisations including one of the largest Aboriginal organisations in Australia offering innovative treatments and assessments.

Previous projects and roles include: working with children and young people to develop better tools in assessment and treatment of mental health issues, creating assessment tools for businesses in order to capture the needs of staff and their clients, and creating programs and auto scorers to help minimise errors and time lost scoring assessments.

Contributions to the Psychology field that should also be noted are clinic developed tools such as specific revolutionary token economy systems which praises children for calming down after a tantrum as opposed to a punishment orientated approach. He has also implemented culturally specific assessment tools for Aboriginal and non-English speaking communities across Australia.

Nick Petrovic's work has discussed with her Excellency the Governor of NSW discussing his revolutionary token economy system. The premise of this system is that unlike some reward systems, the point system is there to keep the child motivated to succeed even after a tantrum. It is important to acknowledge a child's restraint after a tantrum especially with children who have trouble with impulse control. The point's system takes this into account and gives children partial rewards to promote quicker recovery times after tantrums.

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