Behavior Analytic Consultation to Schools

Stimulus Publications, 2009. Softcover. New. Behavior Analytic Consultation To Schools describes a step-by-step best practice approach to providing assessment and treatment of severe behavior problems in school settings. The BACS model describes in great detail everything needed for behavior analysts to conduct detailed experimental analyses in school settings to determine the function of severe behavior, whether selected treatments are effective treatments, whether staff is implementing interventions with integrity, and whether the treatments are effective in the referral environment. The BACS model is like no other model of consultation ever described. This expert-based approach relies on empirical analysis, data-based decision making, and single-case methodology. Behavior Analytic Consultation To Schools describes in very fine-grained detail the methods and procedures of indirect and descriptive functional behavior assessment, issues related to conducting experimental functional analyses in public school settings, selecting treatments based on the results of the analyses, brief treatment analyses to ensure intervention effectiveness, empirically supported teacher and staff training methods to ensure high treatment integrity, generalization analyses to ensure effectiveness with staff and in the referral environment, and social validity measures and assessment. The BACS model addresses years of criticism directed at previous models of consultation and is the only model that relies on the guiding principles and tenets of Applied Behavior Analysis.