School-Wide Positive Behavioral Supports (SWPBS)
Project Description:
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Supports (SWPBS) is a school-wide team based approach to working with students who have challenging behaviors. School Wide Positive Behavioral Supports is a team based, on going process which utilizes system wide approaches to the three key components of Positive Behavioral Supports which are: preventing, teaching, and reacting. Prevention means that we change circumstances that tend to lead to challenging behaviors. Teaching means that we replace challenging behaviors with new skills. Reacting means that we plan consistent, proactive responses to challenging behaviors. Each of these elements is reinforced by school environment and practices.
The Positive Behavioral Supports model integrates behavioral, analytic, and humanistic theories and focuses on identifying the function of challenging behaviors. Research suggests that effective PBS strategies identify the communicative intents or motivation for behavior, teach alternative ways to communicate, identify environmental events or medical circumstances that elicit troublesome behavior, modify events and circumstances to better meet individual needs, provide access to a greater number of preferred choices throughout an individual's day, and encourage the development of adaptive behaviors through differential reinforcements strategies.
Keyword(s):
School-wide positive behavior supports, challenging behaviors,
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance, Education & Early Intervention, Quality of Life
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
