Evolution of PBS
What value in PBS ensures the person’s goals and choices guide the support plan?
What is Person-centered values?
This service-delivery framework helps people with challenging behaviors and focuses on teaching positive behavior, especially in schools and care settings.
What is Positive Behavioral Support (PBS)?
This school-wide approach is designed to prevent problem behavior by teaching and reinforcing positive behaviour.
What is School-Wide Positive Behavioral Support (SWPBS)?
Helping people make their own choices and build independence.
What is self-determination in PBS?
This assessment, also used in ABA, identifies the reasons behind a person’s behavior and guides intervention planning in PBS
What is a functional assessment?
The first step in implementing SWPBS is creating this kind of team, made up of 5–10 staff members.
What is a core implementation team?
They are more proactive, community-based, and address multiple life areas.
What is PBS interventions changing?
Both PBS and ABA aim for behavior change that leads to improved quality of life, which is often referred to as this type of outcome.
What are meaningful outcomes?
Schools using SWPBS typically identify 3–5 of these, which are taught across all school settings.
What are school-wide behavioral expectations?
What does PBS emphasize to stop behaviours before they start
What is Prevention-based approaches.
Instead of focusing on punishment, PBS encourages the use of this strategy to teach and strengthen positive behaviors.
What is positive reinforcement?
This system helps schools track behavior data like office referrals to guide decisions and measure progress.
What is the School-Wide Information System (SWIS)?
What movement influenced PBS to promote inclusive classrooms and workplaces
What is the normalization and inclusion movement?
Although PBS has developed its own journals and training programs, many argue it should still be considered part of this larger scientific discipline.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?
Research shows that consistent implementation of SWPBS can reduce office discipline referrals by up to this percentage.
What is 50%?