Functional Assessment: Strategies to Prevent and Remediate Challenging Behavior in School Settings

Functional Assessment: Strategies to Prevent and Remediate Challenging Behavior in School Settings

Note: This is the loose-leaf version<br />of Functional Assessment and does not<br />include access to the Pearson eText. To order the Pearson eText<br />packaged with the loose-leaf version, use ISBN 0133570851.<br /><br />This comprehensive, practical book provides<br />guidelines, strategies, and procedures for preventing and<br />addressing challenging behavior in school settings. The authors<br />take theoretical and often technical information and present it in<br />an easily understood, applicable manner. The functional assessment<br />and intervention model described in the book is a positive and<br />proactive, team-based approach that has been used to prevent and<br />remediate challenging behavior in school, community, and home<br />settings. Readers learn how to conduct behavior assessment that<br />helps them identify the variables that set the occasion for<br />challenging behavior to occur, and that supports challenging<br />behavior after it has occurred. Assessment information is then used<br />to identify the function of challenging behavior and to develop<br />positive interventions that address it,  and that teach and<br />support appropriate behaviors to replace challenging behavior.