Functional Assessment Strategies to Prevent and Remediate Challenging Behavior in School Settings, Pearson eText -- Access Card

by Chandler, Lynette K.; Dahlquist, Carol M.

• ISBN13: 9780133743852
• ISBN10: 0133743853
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-02-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Functional Assessment provides guidelines, strategies and procedures for preventing and addressing challenging behavior in school settings. The authors take theoretical and often technical information and present it in an easy-to-understand and applicable manner.

For courses in Applied Behavior Analysis or Behavior Management

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Author Biography

Lynette Chandler is a professor and Program Coordinator for Special Education in the Department of Special and Early Education at Northern Illinois University. Lynette has over thirty years of experience working with individuals with disabilities and challenging behaviors in school and community settings. Her areas of expertise are applied behavior analysis and early childhood special education. She has numerous publications in professional journals, books chapters, on-line webinars, and presentations in the areas of Response to Intervention, Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Interventions, social skills, early childhood transitions, and early literacy. Lynette is a past president of the International Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children and she provides consultation to schools and community-based programs regarding functional assessment and positive behavior interventions, early literacy, and Response to Intervention.

Table of 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