I bought this book as a first year school psychologist working in the high school setting. I was trained to conduct functional behavior assessments, but have rarely seen the need or opportunity to do so. However, now that I am working on my own, I have already encountered students with challenging behaviors that require significant assistance to maintain productivity in the classroom and remain safe while on campus.
As such, I began searching Amazon for some resources that would help me on my behavioral intervention journey. This book turned out to be wonderful. It provides a nice introduction to the process of Positive Behavior Support (PBS), team-building and collaboration processes, etc. This is good for individuals who may not have had as much formal training on PBS in school. More critically, I found extremely useful resources in the various citations related to assessment instruments, including functional assessment interviews for parents and students, data collection samples, and detailed considerations for examining the antecedent-behavior-consequence event cycle. Furthermore, there is guidance on what to do when data that has been collected doesn't appear to add up and what to do next.
Honestly, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to be involved in student behavior intervention. While it is wonderful to have widespread, universal interventions, the fact remains that many schools still don't have Response to Intervention processes well-implemented yet. As such, school professionals need all the help they can get when it comes to research-based methods of altering environments and extinguishing undesirable behaviors in students and this book provides a wealth of information.
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