Understanding Challenging Behavior
The PBIS philosophy emphasizes preventing challenging behaviors rather than reacting to them after they occur.
What is a proactive approach to behavior?
The primary focus of school-wide PBIS systems.
What is prevention of challenging behavior?
A strategy that increases appropriate behavior by reinforcing it.
What is differential reinforcement?
When a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced.
What is extinction?
Professionals emphasize this principle when selecting behavior interventions.
What is the use of least-intrusive procedures?
A behavior that causes risk to the individual, others, or property and interferes with quality of life.
What is challenging behavior?
Designing classroom environments to reduce triggers and increase appropriate behavior.
What is environmental engineering?
Reinforcing a behavior that serves as an alternative to the problem behavior.
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior)?
A sudden increase in behavior when extinction is first implemented.
What is an extinction burst?
A plan designed to manage dangerous behavior that threatens safety.
What is a crisis intervention plan?
A common mistake in schools is focusing on eliminating behavior quickly rather than doing this.
What is teaching replacement behaviors?
The PBIS model supports behavior across these three levels of settings.
What are classroom, non-classroom, and individual student supports?
Reinforcing a behavior that cannot occur at the same time as the problem behavior.
What is DRI (Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior)?
Removing something valuable (like points or privileges) after inappropriate behavior.
What is response cost?
One major criticism of corporal punishment discussed in the chapter.
What is that it does not teach replacement behaviors?
Three supports that schools must have to successfully implement SWPBIS.
What are resources, administrative support, and staff buy-in?
A decision-making strategy emphasized in PBIS that relies on evidence.
What are data-based decisions?
Reinforcement given when the target behavior does not occur during a specified time period.
What is DRO (Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior)?
Removing a student from reinforcement following problem behavior.
What is time-out?
A negative outcome of punishment where students learn to avoid adults instead of changing behavior.
What is escape or avoidance behavior?
The biggest challenge of implementing SWPBIS according to the chapter.
What is training teachers in both the philosophy and application of PBS?
The process of building knowledge and skills within a school to support behavior interventions.
What is capacity building?
A differential reinforcement strategy used when a behavior should be reduced but not eliminated.
What is DRL (Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates)?
A time-out procedure where the student is removed from the classroom or activity area.
What is exclusionary time-out?
The philosophical approach PBIS takes toward behavior change.
What is teaching and reinforcing positive behavior rather than punishing negative behavior?