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Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Positive Beginnings: Supporting Young Children with Challenging Behavior

PBS Quiz: How to Play the Game 1. Designate recorder and announcer 2. Listen to question and determine your answer 3. Recorder writes down answer 4. Announcer stands up and waits to be called on (does not show the answer) Positive Beginnings: Supporting Young Children with Challenging Behavior

The process used to determine the meaning of problem behavior is:

Functional Assessment

Your best guess about the function of behavior is called

Behavior Hypotheses

The function of behavior usually falls into these two categories

Obtain and Escape

To determine the function of behavior, you can use these two strategies

Observe and Interview

Traditional approaches to changing behavior are reactive, PBS is _____.

Proactive

Before you develop a behavior plan, you must first determine this

Function or Purpose of the Behavior

The four parts of a behavior support plan are

Behavior hypotheses Replacement skills (new skills) Prevention strategies New responses

A skill taught to a child as an alternative to problem behavior

Replacement Skill

Strategies used to decrease the child’s need to use problem behavior

Prevention Strategies

The part of the behavior plan that describes how you will respond to problem behavior when it occurs

New Responses

Child outcomes should be monitored in the following two areas

Problem Behavior Reduction and New Skill Acquisition

Cassandra cries and screams during circle. The teacher gives up and lets her leave. Cassandra stops crying when she gets to leave circle. The function of the behavior is

Escape

Joey is playing with the blocks. His teacher moves to a group of children doing playdough and plays with them. Joey knocks down another child’s block structure and looks at the teacher. The teacher immediately moves to the block area to intervene. Joey smiles at the teacher. The function of the behavior is

Request attention

When a child has problem behavior, we should not think about how to punish, but how to?

Teach

What is missing from this hypothesis statement? Joey is very disruptive in class. When we have small group, he pinches and kicks other children. We respond by asking him to leave group.