Springer Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis in the Classroom: Integrating Research into Practice (Autism and Child Psychopathology Series)

This handbook addresses how applied behavior analysis (ABA) principles and procedures can be integrated into classroom settings. It examines key classroom issues, such as introducing ABA techniques into the framework of compassionate care and trauma-informed care as well as the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The handbook describes ways in which educators and other professionals can observe and measure behavior in an objective and practical manner. In addition, it describes evidence-based procedures and practices and their role in the classroom and introduces methods for targeting appropriate classroom behaviors and addressing problem behaviors. The handbook explores interdisciplinary care and addresses the fading of classroom supports. Key areas of coverage include: Observation and measurement of behavior in the classroom. Data analysis and interpretation for educators and other professionals. Evidence-based practices, including early intervention, discrete trial instruction, programmed instruction, token economies, and the Good Behavior Game. Social skills, cooperation, transitions, food selectivity, math skills, and vocational skills. Interventions for problem behaviors, including preventive and reactive approaches, functional assessment as well as generalization and maintenance. Caregiver training and program development. The Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis in the Classroom is a must-have resource for clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners and professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, special education, clinical social work, rehabilitation medicine / physical and occupational therapy, pediatrics, neurology, and all related disciplines.