The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors - Softcover

Minahan, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612507514 ISBN 13: 9781612507514

Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2014

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Since its publication in 2012, The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students has helped countless classroom teachers, special educators, and others implement an effective, new approach to teaching focused on skill-building, practical interventions, and purposeful, positive interactions with students who have mental health disorders.

Based on the success of the previous book, author Jessica Minahan has written this companion guide for educatorsseeking additional guidance for creating and implementing successful behavior intervention plans (“FAIR Plans”) for the students teachers worry about the most: those with anxiety-related or oppositional behaviors.

Minahan takes readers step-by-step through the process of understanding and practicing the components of a FAIR behavior intervention plan so that they or a team can immediately customize it and put it to work in classrooms. Additional tips on creating interventions, as well as checklists to help with implementation and monitoring progress, are also included.

Packed with brainstorming and reflection exercises, planning activities, templates, case studies, recommended apps, and other technology resources, The Behavior Code Companion will help educators create optimal classroom environments for all students.

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Jessica Minahan is a board-certified behavior analyst and special educator who serves as the director of behavioral services at the Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents group practice in Newton, Masssachusetts, USA and as a consultant to clients nationwide. She is coauthor of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students.

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Building on the success of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, Jessica Minahan provides this essential guide for educators seeking additional help in supporting students with mental health disorders. The Behavior Code Companion leads readers step-by-step through the creation of successful intervention plans, and includes strategies and tools that can be customized for their students. Packed with planning exercises, case studies, and recommended resources, this practical guide will help educators create an optimal classroom environment for all students.

&;The Behavior Code Companion is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, administrators, and related service providers, filled with tools that allow for effective and positive modification of challenging and interfering behaviors while preserving the child's dignity.&; &; Alexandre Cron, special education teacher, New York City

&;Jessica Minahan translates complex knowledge about challenging behavior so that teachers and administrators have tools and strategies they can immediately implement. The Behavior Code Companion is a game changer that will help all schools that think they have run out of ideas.&; &; Michael Cordell, chief academic officer, KIPP DC

&;Minahan provides so many creative and reasonable ways to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles that she makes me want to go back to public school teaching! What a much better place schools would be if all school personnel and mental health professionals used this book!&; &; Jeannie Golden, psychologist, behavior analyst, and associate professor, East Carolina University

&;The Behavior Code Companion offers brilliant insight into mental health issues in the form of practical, research-based interventions teachers can actually implement.&; &; Vaughn C. Kauffman, former director of special education, Helena, Montana

Jessica Minahan is a board-certified behavior analyst and special educator who serves as the director of behavioral services at the Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents group practice in Newton, Massachusetts, and as a consultant to clients nationwide. She is coauthor of The Behavior Code.

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• Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1612507514
• ISBN 13: 9781612507514
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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