Decrease destructive behaviours and improve students’ social outlook and academic performance with the ideas you’ll find in this book! Here is a state-of-the-art review of behaviour psychology services in public schools. It will help you address issues of evaluation, technical assistance consultation, training, student discipline, academic remediation, and health-facilitating intervention.
Key Features
- presents an overview of the focus, scope, and practice of behavioural consultation to public schools, examining contemporary approaches such as positive behaviour support, functional behavioural assessment, and efficacy evaluation
- shows why problem behaviour in elementary and middle school students requires a preventive, whole-school approach and describes steps to implement school-wide positive behaviour support
- examines ways to enhance academic behaviour, decrease disruptive behaviours, and improve academic performance
- looks at risk prevention programs designed to promote healthy behaviour and prevent chronic health problems, substance abuse, high-risk sexual behaviours, and physical/sexual abuse of children
- reviews constructive and preventive methods of reducing school violence and vandalism
- examines the laws and policies that support the use of school-wide discipline programs
- shows you how to use curriculum-based measurement to evaluate treatment efficacy
- describes consultation to a public school district in the form of a systems-wide evaluation of instructional and behaviour support practices for developmentally disabled students
- teaches you to select effective interventions
Additional Information
Authored by respected clinicians, educators, and researchers who blend their extensive practical knowledge with scientific findings to deliver sound, practical advice. This book explores systems-wide applications that put this knowledge to work.
