How to Use Systematic Attention and Approval, Third Edition presents a program to help parents, educators, employers, and other community members become skillful in using the powerful and effective motivational tool of systematic attention and approval. It will help readers to understand and use attention and approval more effectively to bring about desirable behavior in those with whom they live and work. The techniques presented are based on years of fundamental and functional research conducted in real-life settings. Much of the material in this book is based on research conducted by and with parents, teachers, employers, and others whose primary interests were in learning about the importance of approval, acceptance, and attention in behavior management.
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.