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Additional Reading
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Evolving from
more than a decade of work at IABA, this book provides the tools needed
to enhance and maintain high quality service delivery. Translating the
principles of effective management into concrete policies and
procedures, the Periodic Service Review (PSR) acts as both an
instrument and a system. As an instrument, the PSR provides easy to
follow score sheets to assess staff performance and the quality of
services provided. As a system, it guides managers step-by-step through
4 interrelated elements - performance standards, performance
monitoring, performance feedback, and systematic training - to offer an
ongoing process for ensuring staff consistency and a high level of
quality for services and programs. Practical examples show how the PSR
is applied to group home, supported living, classroom, and supported
employment settings, and the helpful appendices provide numerous tables
and charts that can easily be tailored to a variety of programs.
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As individuals with special educational and developmental needs are
increasingly being integrated into the community, responding to their
problem behaviors in a dignified and appropriate manner becomes
essential. In this volume, the authors argue against the use of
punishment, and instead advocate the use of alternative intervention
procedures. The positive programming model described in this volume is
a gradual educational process for behavior change, based on a
functional analysis of problems, that involves systematic instruction
in more effective ways of behaving. The work provides an overview of
nonaversive behavioral technology and demonstrates how specific
techniques change behavior through positive means. The extensive
examples and illustrative material make the book a particularly useful
resource for the field.
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"(This book) provides a comprehensive treatment of alternatives to punishment in
dealing with behavior problems evidenced by human beings at various
levels of development and in various circumstances. Based upon their
own extensive observations and a thorough-going analysis of relevant
experimental studies, (the authors) have put together a document that
is at once a teaching instrument, a summary of research, and an
argument for the use of positive reinforcement in the treatment of
inadequate or undesired behavior a landmark volume which should forever
lay the ghost that aversive methods (even the ubiquitous 'time out')
need to be applied to the delinquent, the retarded, or the normal
'learner,' whether in the home, the school, the clinic, or other
situations." - Fred S. Keller (From the Preface to Alternatives to
Punishment)
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The ePSR system is a Trademark of Sophia Enterprises, through an exclusive
world-wide licensing agreement with the Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis.
Click to learn more.
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