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Description:
This course is one of ten in the School Mental Health Training Series: Addressing Barriers to Learning. You will examine concepts in behavioral technology and their application. You will learn potential misperceptions and misapplications of behavioral principles and examine accurate information about behavioral techniques, and how to use functional behavioral assessment to better understand why a behavior occurs and how to change it.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify some common misconceptions about and misapplications of behavioral principles behavioral intervention
- Define types of consequences and the key role they play in behavioral intervention
- Use anecdotal recordings, ABC profiles and functional behavioral analysis to identify solutions for problem behavior
- Examine positive behavioral intervention in the classroom

Author(s):
Jeannie Golden, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Thomas Herriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, Nationally Board Certified Behavior Analysis

Target Audience:
This course is designed primarily for school personnel. School nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, school resource officers, student services directors, exceptional children program directors, principals and assistant principals will find this course useful in addressing needs of students. Other school personnel, such as teachers and teacher assistants will find the course useful. Child mental health professionals may also benefit from this course.

Length: 2 hours

Credit Type(s): 2 CNE Contact Hours, 2 NBCC, 2 NCSAPPB GSB, 2 Public School Personnel Renewal Credit, .02 CEU, 2.0 Contact Hours

Cost: $25.00