"Positive behavior support (PBS) uses tools from applied behaviour analysis and values of normalization and social role valorization theory to improve quality of life, usually in schools."
Developing strategies for managing challenging behaviors in students with disabilities including functional behavior assessments, positive behavior intervention plans, and crisis management techniques.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): A scientific approach to behavior management that uses reinforcement techniques to increase or reduce behavior.
Positive Behavior Support: A framework that emphasizes positive reinforcement and prevention of challenging behaviors in all settings, including schools, homes, and community environments.
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA): A process used to identify the cause or function of a behavior in order to develop an effective behavioral intervention plan.
Individualized Education Plan (IEP): A legal document outlining the educational and behavioral goals for a student with special needs, including any accommodations and supports required.
Classroom Management: Techniques and strategies for creating and maintaining a positive and supportive classroom environment, including rules, routines, and consequences.
Behavior Contracts: A written agreement between the teacher, student, and parents outlining the desired behavior and consequences for meeting or not meeting expectations.
Social Skills Training: Instruction and practice in appropriate social behaviors, such as sharing, taking turns, and problem-solving.
Skill Streaming: An evidence-based intervention that teaches social and communication skills using structured lessons and role-play activities.
Token Economy: A system in which students earn tokens or points for positive behaviors and can exchange them for rewards or privileges.
Response to Intervention (RTI): A multi-tiered approach for providing intervention and support to students with academic and behavioral challenges.
Trauma-Informed Care: An approach that recognizes and addresses the emotional and behavioral effects of trauma on students, with a focus on building resilience and self-regulation skills.
Collaborative Problem Solving: A method for addressing challenging behaviors through collaboration and problem-solving between teachers, parents, and students.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): A therapeutic approach that helps students identify and change negative or dysfunctional thought patterns and behaviors.
Self-Determination: A focus on promoting student autonomy and decision-making skills in relation to their own behavior and goals.
Functional Communication Training: A method for teaching communication skills to students who exhibit problem behaviors by using alternative, appropriate ways to communicate their needs and wants.
Positive reinforcement: This entails rewarding or praising a student for positive behaviors, allowing them to understand that this behavior is desirable, and encourages them to repeat it.
Negative reinforcement: Although opposite in wording, here, negative reinforcement also aims to encourage positive behavior, by helping students understand consequences of undesirable behavior.
Functional analysis: This involves observing the student in their learning environment, and identifying problems or triggers that can lead to disruptive behavior, and develop interventions to manage them.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): This involves breaking down behaviors into various parts or components, and modifying each part individually, to encourage positive behavior.
Token economies: This involves creating systems where students receive tokens or points for positive behaviors they exhibit, with the tokens redeemable for desired objects, privileges or rewards.
Social emotional learning: Promotes understanding and regulating emotions, practicing empathy, and establishing social relationships that are key to classroom success.
Collaborative problem-solving: This approach involves working with students to identify problems and solutions that would be effective based on their perspective, something that helps students feel understood and valued.
Consequence-driven behavior: This aims at installing observable management strategies that help in curbing negative behavior, including defining consequences of behaviors that are undesirable for shaping behavior.
"PBS uses functional analysis to understand what maintains an individual's challenging behavior and how to support the individual to get these needs met in a more appropriate way."
"People's inappropriate behaviors are difficult to change because they are functional; they serve a purpose for them."
"People may inadvertently reinforce undesired behaviors by providing objects and/or attention because of the behavior."
"The positive behavior support process involves identifying goals, then undertaking functional behavior assessment (FBA)."
"FBAs clearly describe behaviors, identify the contexts (events, times, and situation) that predict when behavior will and will not occur, and consequences that maintain the behavior."
"The FBA includes a hypothesis about the behavior and data for a baseline. This informs the support plan design, implementation, and monitoring of the plan."
"Positive behavior support is increasingly being recognized as a strategy that is feasible, desirable, and effective."
"For example, teachers and parents need strategies they are able and willing to use and that affect the child's ability to participate in community and school activities."
"By changing stimulus and reinforcement in the environment and teaching the person to strengthen deficit skill areas, their behavior changes."
"Three areas of deficit skills addressed by PBS are communication skills, social skills, and self-management skills."
"Re-directive therapy as positive behavior support is especially effective in the parent-child relationship."
"Where other treatment plans have failed, re-directive therapy allows for a positive interaction between parents and children."
"Positive behavior support is successful in the school setting because it is primarily a teaching method."
"Positive behavior support (PBS) uses tools from applied behavior analysis."
"Positive behavior support (PBS) uses tools from applied behavior analysis and values of normalization and social role valorization theory."
"PBS uses functional analysis to understand what maintains an individual's challenging behavior and how to support the individual to get these needs met in a more appropriate way."
"People's inappropriate behaviors are difficult to change because they are functional; they serve a purpose for them."
"People may inadvertently reinforce undesired behaviors by providing objects and/or attention because of the behavior."
"In schools, this can allow students to be included in the general education setting."