Articles from Summer Series: Reducing PB

Training Staff {Model}

Sasha Long 08.07.14 Comments: 2

by Sasha Long | Aug 7, 2014 | Interventions, Reducing Problem Behavior, Resources | 2 comments

Yesterday I climbed high up on my soapbox and gave you the “you must and can make time for staff training” speech. Maybe I sold you. Maybe I didn’t. You still might have that nagging voice in the back of your head, “but it’s impossible to...

Training Staff {Sharing Information}

Sasha Long 08.06.14 Comments: 6

by Sasha Long | Aug 6, 2014 | Interventions, Reducing Problem Behavior, Resources | 6 comments

Sometimes some of our methods, interventions, and strategies seem just down right wacky and weird. We surely can’t blame others from not understanding the method to our madness if we don’t freaken share the methods with them. I know we are often stuck in...

Behavior Maintenance

Sasha Long 07.31.14 Comments: 0

by Sasha Long | Jul 31, 2014 | Interventions, Reducing Problem Behavior, Resources | 0 comments

You are a behavioral rock star. You’ve taken baseline data, identified the function, selected an impeccable intervention, and even did the heavy lifting and implemented that intervention with OCD like perfection. Behaviors are down, morale is up. Life is good....

Fade the Intervention

Sasha Long 07.30.14 Comments: 0

by Sasha Long | Jul 30, 2014 | Interventions, Reducing Problem Behavior, Resources | 0 comments

You’ve hit the behavioral jackpot. Through a cunning combo of reinforcing an appropriate replacement behavior and using a function based intervention – you have reduced and maybe even eliminated all together a problem behavior. Insert victory dance here....