Full Description
For courses in Applied Behavior Analysis or Behavior Management
Guidelines and procedures for preventing and addressing challenging behavior in school setting
This comprehensive, practical book provides teachers and other educators, therapists, and administrators with guidelines and procedures for preventing and addressing challenging behavior in school settings. The authors take theoretical and often technical information and present it in an easily understood, applicable manner. The functional assessment and intervention model described in the book is a positive and proactive, team-based approach that has been used to prevent and remediate challenging behavior in school, community, and home settings. Readers learn how to conduct behavior assessment that helps them identify the variables that set the occasion for challenging behavior to occur, and that supports challenging behavior after it has occurred. Assessment information is then used to identify the function of challenging behavior and to develop positive interventions that address it, and that teach and support appropriate behaviors to replace challenging behavior.
Included are numerous examples of challenging behavior that occur in a variety of school settings and classroom activities, including examples of students with and without disabilities, students with a range of disabilities, students at varying ages and grade levels (preschool through high school), students in a variety of school settings and activities, and students who exhibit severe and disruptive behavior as well as frequent and infrequent challenging behavior.
Contents
Part One: Introduction to Challenging Behavior and the Functional Assessment and Intervention Model
Chapter 1: The Importance of Identifying and Addressing Challenging Behavior and Identifying Why Challenging Behavior Occurs
Chapter 2: Assumptions and Goals of Functional Assessment
Part Two: Conducting a Functional Assessment
Chapter 3: Assessing the Current Environment
Chapter 4: Identifying the Function of Challenging and Appropriate Behaviors
Part Three: Selecting and Implementing Function-Based Interventions
Chapter 5: Selecting Setting Event, Antecedent, and Consequence Strategies and Appropriate Replacement Behaviors
Chapter 6: Intervention Strategies Related to the Positive Reinforcement Function
Chapter 7: Intervention Strategies Related to the Negative Reinforcement Function
Chapter 8: General Intervention Strategies Related to the Sensory Regulation/Sensory Stimulation Function
Chapter 9: Specific Intervention Strategies Related to the Increase and Decrease in Sensory Regulations/Sensory Stimulation Functions
Chapter 10: Strategies to Promote Generalization and Maintenance of Behavior and to Prevent the Development and Recurrence of Behavior
Part Four: Functional Assessment Within School Settings
Chapter 11: Guidelines for Program Implementation and Consultation
