Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.
This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).
1. 1. Behavioral skills training: An introduction - p. 1 2. 2. Needs assessment - p. 19 3. 3. Basic behavioral skills training procedures - p. 47 4. 4. Programming generalization, discrimination, and maintenance - p. 75 5. 5. Applications: Basic teaching strategies - p. 99 6. 6. Applications: Complex teaching strategies and interaction skills - p. 125 7. 7. Professional skills - p. 145 8. 8. Component and parametric analyses of behavioral skills training - p. 179 9. 9. The evidence base for behavioral skills training - p. 191 10. 10. Pyramidal training - p. 231 11. 11. Future directions and outstanding issues - p. 249 12. Index - p. 281
Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.
This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).
1. 1. Behavioral skills training: An introduction - p. 1 2. 2. Needs assessment - p. 19 3. 3. Basic behavioral skills training procedures - p. 47 4. 4. Programming generalization, discrimination, and maintenance - p. 75 5. 5. Applications: Basic teaching strategies - p. 99 6. 6. Applications: Complex teaching strategies and interaction skills - p. 125 7. 7. Professional skills - p. 145 8. 8. Component and parametric analyses of behavioral skills training - p. 179 9. 9. The evidence base for behavioral skills training - p. 191 10. 10. Pyramidal training - p. 231 11. 11. Future directions and outstanding issues - p. 249 12. Index - p. 281
