Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviour

Children who have a pattern of oppositional and defiant behaviours such as arguing with authority figures, refusing to comply with a rule or request, or blaming someone else for their bad behaviour can leave educators feeling high levels of stress, frustration and uncertainty about how to support the child. Does this sound familiar? Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours: A Step by Step Guide to Assessing, Managing and Preventing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties is a highly practical book that can be used by educators in childcare, preschool, schools and community services to learn the evidence-based approach of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to assess, manage and prevent oppositional and defiant behaviours in children of all ages. Learn how complete a functional behaviour analysis to document behaviour incidents, identify triggers and determine the reasons for specific challenging behaviours. Consult the bank of proactive strategies that can be tailored to an individual child's environment to prevent triggers and promote positive ways of communicating, behaving and managing emotions. Develop an escalation profile to describe the different verbal and non-verbal signals the child exhibits as their levels of stress, anger and/or frustration increase, and determine strategies for responding to each escalation stage. Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours: A Step by Step Guide to Assessing, Managing and Preventing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties provides templates, banks of practical strategies and a framework for developing a behaviour management plan so that all staff supporting a child can respond to challenging behaviours effectively and efficiently in a planned, safe and least disruptive manner. This book will educate, empower and enable you to help your child learn positive ways of behaving and managing their emotions, so they can spend more time learning and developing, and you can spend more time doing what you do best: teaching.