Behavior management

About this book

"Behavior Management: Principles and Practices of Positive Behavior Supports, Second Edition provides the best of behavior analysis and positive behavior supports (PBS) available in a text, with the main goal of helping teachers achieve optimal behavioral and learning outcomes for the students they teach, regardless of the degree of challenging behavior exhibited. The authors primarily address the needs of learners with disabilities, but also emphasize the relevance and success of PBS for all children and youth. Utilizing interesting and well-placed case-style vignettes embedded within each chapter, pre-service teachers and related service personnel are assisted in learning key and important principles for behavior management and how they apply to practice. The text additionally: reinforces the principles of PBS applied to practice such as engineering environments, functional behavior assessment, and antecedent management strategies; gives thorough treatment in communicating the emergence of PBS from ABA; the depiction of PBS as the model of choice in working with children who experience challenging behavior; discusses ethics and the role of families in the delivery of PBS, and the role of families as partners in education; demonstrates key principles in practice in actual classrooms with real learners;and features the most current and empirical-based research in the field. Thoroughly updated and revised, this edition reflects the most recent and important changes and updates to the field."--Publisher's website.