Behavior Management Skills Guide - by Scott Walls & Deb Rauner (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Behavior Management Skills Guide is a unique resource that covers the process of changing behavior in children and adolescents - from start to finish.

With decades of clinical and classroom behavior management success, authors Scott Walls and Deb Rauner have written a comprehensive manual featuring the best methods for effective change. The authors have identified 3 levels of negative behavior components and have paired these levels with interventions proven to increase positive behaviors and skills. Filled with strategies for individuals or groups, this guide also includes downloadable and ready-to-use assessments, exercises, tools and forms.

-Easy-to-use tools to evaluate the function of behavior

-Strategies that match individual motivation to intervention plans

-Skills to change and eliminate inappropriate behavior

-Interventions to increase positive behaviors

-De-escalation strategies

-Reaction plans

-Administrator practice & staff training

About the Author

Scott D. Walls, MA, LIPC, CCMHC is a mental health counselor, consultant and national speaker in private practice in Lincoln, NE. Walls has served as a behavior specialist and psychotherapist in the public schools, and both the non-profit and profit sectors. He has provided training and therapy for thousands of children, teens and families across the country.

Deb Rauner, M.Ed., is an autism consultant and a special education teacher with 33 years of service. Rauner s expertise includes applied behavior analysis, functional behavior assessment, programming for students with Autism, and designing ABA classrooms using verbal behavior strategies.