Applied Behavior Analysis In The Classroom; Author: Schloss, Patrick; Joint Author: Smith, Maureen A.; Paperback

Author: Schloss, Patrick; Joint Author: Smith, Maureen A.
Edition #2; Paperback
356 pages
Published: February 1998
Pearson Higher Education
ISBN: 0205196837

Written for professionals in both general and special education, this book is a complete description if applied behavior analysis and how it can be used with students displaying a range of excessive and deficit behaviors. In addition to traditional topics covered in other applied behavior books, this reference devotes substantial attention to preventing problems through anecdotal control, social skill development and emotional learning. Topics include increasing appropriate behavior through related personal characteristics; increasing appropriate behavior through consequence control; positive approaches to decreasing inappropriate behavior; punishment; graphing, and more. Behavior analysts, teachers of any level.This book is designed to give teachers the skills they need to arrange a classroom environment that promotes acceptable behaviors. Addresses behavioral objectives, antecedent control techniques, consequent control, punishment, data collection, graph ing, and working with parents. Includes many real-