Communication-Based Intervention for Problem Behavior A User's Guide for Producing Positive Change

Understanding why individuals engage in problem behavior is the first step toward developing effective interventions--and this user-friendly guide will help you do both. First, you'll get a primer on understanding challenging behaviors and learn how to conduct your own functional assessments to reveal what's behind an individual's actions. Then you'll get extensively field-tested strategies, including adaptable guidelines on- building rapport- providing opportunities for individuals to make their own choices- selecting and teaching forms of communication- establishing crisis management tacticsThroughout the book, you'll find checklists of things to do, case stories with transcripts of interactions, and helpful commentary on what worked in the examples and why. Order today, and learn how to help individuals replace aggression and self-injury with alternative communication skills.Carr, Edward G. is the author of 'Communication-Based Intervention for Problem Behavior A User's Guide for Producing Positive Change' with ISBN 9781557661593 and ISBN 1557661596.