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Evolving from more than a decade of work at IABA,
this book provides the tools
needed to enhance and maintain high quality service delivery. Translating the
principles of effective management into concrete policies and procedures, the
Periodic Service Review (PSR) acts as both an instrument and a system. As an
instrument, the PSR provides easy to follow score sheets to assess staff
performance and the quality of services provided. As a system, it guides
managers step-by-step through 4 interrelated elements - performance standards,
performance monitoring, performance feedback, and systematic training - to
offer an ongoing process for ensuring staff consistency and a high level of
quality for services and programs. Practical examples show how the PSR is
applied to group home, supported living, classroom, and supported employment
settings, and the helpful appendices provide numerous tables and charts that
can easily be tailored to a variety of programs.
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As individuals with special educational and developmental needs are
increasingly being integrated into the community, responding to their problem
behaviors in a dignified and appropriate manner becomes essential. In this
volume, the authors argue against the use of punishment, and instead advocate
the use of alternative intervention procedures. The positive programming model
described in this volume is a gradual educational process for behavior change,
based on a functional analysis of problems, that involves systematic
instruction in more effective ways of behaving. The work provides an overview
of nonaversive behavioral technology and demonstrates how specific techniques
change behavior through positive means. The extensive examples and illustrative
material make the book a particularly useful resource for the field.
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"(This book) provides a comprehensive treatment of alternatives to punishment
in dealing with behavior problems evidenced by human beings at various levels
of development and in various circumstances. Based upon their own extensive
observations and a thorough-going analysis of relevant experimental studies,
(the authors) have put together a document that is at once a teaching
instrument, a summary of research, and an argument for the use of positive
reinforcement in the treatment of inadequate or undesired behavior a landmark
volume which should forever lay the ghost that aversive methods (even the
ubiquitous 'time out') need to be applied to the delinquent, the retarded, or
the normal 'learner,' whether in the home, the school, the clinic, or other
situations." - Fred S. Keller (From the Preface to Alternatives to Punishment)
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