This comprehensive, practical book 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 easily understood, applicable manner. The functional assessment and intervention model described in the book is a positive and proactive, team-based approach that has been used to prevent and remediate challenging behavior in school, community, and home settings. Readers learn how to conduct behavior assessment that helps them identify the variables that set the occasion for challenging behavior to occur, and that supports challenging behavior after it has occurred. Assessment information is then used to identify the function of challenging behavior and to develop positive interventions that address it, and that teach and support appropriate behaviors to replace challenging behavior.

This new edition features:

• NEW! To enhance affordability and portability this exciting new assessment text is available as a Pearson eText. With the eText students can easily take and share notes, highlight, and search for key concepts.
• NEW! A new section addresses classroom management strategies to prevent challenging behavior and promote appropriate behavior. (Ch. 2)
• NEW! An expanded focus on strategies to prevent the development or occurrence of challenging behavior.
• NEW! Additional strategies to address the various functions of challenging behavior, plus descriptions of recent research to support those strategies
• NEW! A new section on effective instructional strategies.
• NEW! An overview of the multi-tiered Response to Intervention (RtI) framework.
• NEW! Expanded information on Positive Behavior Support and school wide applications.

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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