Strategies for Behavioral Intervention

A course in evidence-based behavioral interventions is imperative in meeting the needs of students in the educational environment. This course will look at prevention and intervention strategies at an academic and personal/social level. Behavioral interventions with the best outcomes are proactive and positive. This course will have students think about interventions in a structuring and teaching fashion instead of punitive responses. Techniques and skills to intervene at behavior function-based level will be the focus of the course. The skills and techniques taught through this class will be used in a school counselor’s abilities to effectively intervene with students proactively and positively.

PREREQUISITE:  CSL6801, CSL6833

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Demonstrating positive behavioral intervention strategies.
• Making behavioral observations.
• Collecting behavioral/academic data.
• Executing and designing Response to Intervention (RtI) meeting.
• Using consultation strategies in the school environment.
• Planning procedures of data collection, analyzing, and documentation.
• Analyzing functionality of behavior and how to intervention.
• De-escalating emotional situations.
• Managing physically dangerous behavior and threats of violence.
• Developing and applying functional reinforcement systems.
• Stating limits and establishment of consequences for misbehavior.
• Identifying internalized problems requiring mental health referral.
• Relating relaxation and stress management techniques to staff and students.
• Developing process for identifying replacement behaviors.
• Developing a process for identifying target behaviors.
• Identifying need for teaching replacement behaviors.
• Teaching self-monitoring and self-evaluation behaviors to students.
• Implementing functional communication skills to the student.
• Demonstrating the use of structured reinforcement systems.