Challenging Behavior: A Model for Breaking Barriers to Social and Community Integration
Category:
1
Credits:
1
Objectives:
The educational objectives of the Severe and Challenging Behavior: Theory articles published by the Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis are as described below.
Readers will learn a variety of Positive Programming strategies for use in working with clients who have severe and challenging behaviors, such as those with significant psychiatric symptoms, developmental delays and others.
Readers will learn about the research that supports Positive Programming strategies as effective technologies to use with clients.
Description:
In the effort to integrate people with developmental disability into the community, those with severely challenging behaviors require support plans that produce durable and generalizable behavior changes. This article describes the use of applied behavior analysis in addressing those severely challenging behaviors that often serve as barriers to successful community integration.
Keywords: Behavioral assessment, behavioral analysis, functional analysis, developmentally disabled, mentally retarded, pervasive personality disorder, autism, challenging behaviors, children, adolescents, applied behavior analysis, community integration
Approval Bodies:
Professional Development
American Psychological Association
Florida Dept. of Health (Board of Social Work, Marriage & Family, Mental Health Counseling)
NAADAC, National Association for Addiction Professionals
National Board for Certified Counselors
Florida Board of Nursing
Ohio Board of Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board, Expiration 03/31/2010
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Illinois Social Work Continuing Education
Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
CAADAC, California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
CAADE - California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators
Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Marriage and Family Therapist
Ohio Board of Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board, 04/2010 to 03/2012
