Compassionate Care
This principle emphasizes recognizing and respecting a client’s willingness to participate in an activity or intervention.
What is assent?
This ideal from CPI/nCI states that behavior influences behavior.
What is the Integrated Experience?
This program is defined by students that are expected to require maximum assistance with social skills, academics, and daily living.
Curriculum includes developmentally appropriate skills, and community based outings.
What is Living Skills?
Beyond DSM-V criteria, ADHD commonly impacts this skill area related to managing feelings, which significantly affects learning and behavior.
What is emotional regulation?
This framework helps us understand the context in which a behavior occurs and includes a beginning, middle, and end.
What are the ABCs of Behavior?
In compassionate ABA, all behavior is viewed as this, rather than something to eliminate or punish.
What is communication?
This staff approach is best utilized when a student is showing signs of defensiveness
What is the Directive Approach?
This program is defined by students that are expected to require moderate assistance with academics and social skills.
Curriculum includes academics that will help support independence with daily living skills, such as obtaining a job, and understanding money.
What is Functional Academics?
This executive skill domain, often impaired in ADHD, involves planning, organization, and self-management across environments.
What is executive functioning?
This strategy increases behavior by giving a stimuli.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
This approach focuses on understanding the environmental, emotional, and historical factors influencing behavior before implementing interventions.
What is a trauma-informed approach?
This mindset encourages us to not take things personally by maintaining a calm and professional attitude.
What is Rational Detachment?
This program is defined by students that are expected to require minimal assistance with academics, with mild to moderate assistance for social skills.
Curriculum is similar to general education standards, but is broken down into smaller parts and at a slower pace.
What is Core Curriculum?
According to the presentation, this condition co-occurs with ADHD at rates of approximately 15–35% and often worsens emotional and social outcomes.
What is anxiety?
These four reinforcers describe the needs of all humans.
What are the Four Functions of Behavior?
A compassionate practitioner prioritizes reducing this when designing behavior intervention plans, even if it means slower skill acquisition.
What is distress (or harm)?
This in-the-moment verbal de-escalation tool offers a student a sense of control without giving up your authority.
What is Offering Choices?
When working in general education classrooms, this principle helps maintain student dignity and classroom authority by reducing attention to support interventions.
What is supporting without spotlighting?
Effective ABA treatment for ADHD requires balancing these two variables to support motivation while minimizing behavioral challenges.
What are novelty and routine?
This strategy increases a behavior by removing a stimul.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
This ethical practice involves actively seeking client and family input, honoring cultural values, and collaborating rather than prescribing solutions.
What is person-centered care?
This strategy is used after a crisis and includes things like offering water/snack and discussing the crisis with the student/team.
What is Therapeutic Rapport?
In emotionally demanding programs such as ED classrooms, this rapport-building practice supports staff well-being after intense incidents without blame.
What are supportive debriefs or emotional check-ins?
This best practice emphasizes quick access to reinforcement and feedback to support attention, learning, and engagement for clients with ADHD.
What is immediacy?
This strategy reduces a behavior by withholding reinforcers for previously reinforced behaviors.
What is Extinction?