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- Supporting students who engage in problem behavior is a difficult task.
- In the past, individuals who engaged in serious problem behaviors were isolated from the rest of the community.
- A major feature of positive behavioral support is to provide students with a wider range of options within the school and community.
- PBS refers to a comprehensive set of strategies that are meant to redesign environments and to teach students new skills.
- There are three important assumptions that drive the development and implementation of positive behavioral support plans.
- Closer assessment will reveal that Faith's vomiting behavior has an adaptive purpose.
- Problem behavior, in many cases, can be seen as a form of communication.
- Students frequently engage in problem behavior in order to escape situations that they find unpleasant.
- Problem behavior can also be maintained by social attention.
- Sometimes a student may engage in a problem behavior in order to obtain something in the environment.
- Sometimes problem behaviors can be caused by physiological factors within the student.
- Sometimes cases have multiple functions maintaining problem behavior.
- Most behavior occurs within a social network or system.
- The ongoing exchange between the two individuals increases in intensity until one of them gives up.
- Our goal is to work together with the student to create a positive social network or system.
- The assessment process should involve the active participation of the individuals who actually implement the behavior support plan.
- Assessment methods are used to identify the variables that maintain and predict problem behavior.
- The types of assessment methods used can vary considerably for different students.
- A comprehensive assessment includes all aspects of a student's life.
- The situations and experiences a student has in one environment can naturally carry over into the other settings where he lives and socializes.
- The functional assessment allows us to continually improve the intervention plans we have implemented.
- Important assessment information can also be related to issues and settings that aren't as close in proximity to the student.
- The information we have discussed has emphasized that we need to know more than just information describing what problem behavior looks like.
- Distant features of the environment include the school and school personnel.
- Knowing how resources are allocated could provide a way to capitalize on an extra staff person while a new behavior support plan is put in place.
- The interdisciplinary group needs to be sensitive to cultural differences in order to avoid confusion and prevent conflict.
- The community is another area that can be assessed. Community level assessment may include finding behavioral support expertise in the area or locating "friendly" businesses.
- Assessment information might be available at the national level. Assessing larger environmental issues may be cost effective and make it unnecessary to put more time consuming procedures in place.
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