Teachers, employers, parents, and trainers in a variety of educational, community, and workplace settings will find this book helpful, since selecting and using appropriate reinforcers is a basic step toward addressing many behavioral, performance, and educational challenges. The book includes sections on Classifying Reinforcers, the 9 Steps to Selecting Potential Reinforcers, and a helpful list of Potential Reinforcers for a variety of age groups.
The revision of this series is highly timely and contemporary. The need for effective behavior management in children, youth, and adults is as important as ever given various events in todays society such as the increases in the numbers of children identified with autism, of bullying incidences both cyber and physical, and of school and workplace violence.
The How To Manage Behavior Series (Third Edition) contains 16 newly revised titles for practitioners and parents. These texts include effective, research-based strategies for use in increasing appropriate behaviors of children, students, and other persons whose behavior may be lacking or be creating problems at home, at school, or on the job. The books are nontechnical, step-by-step instructional manuals that define the procedures, provide numerous examples, and allow the reader to make oral or written responses. The books may be purchased individually or in the set of 16 titles.