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Behavior Intervention
Behavior intervention refers to actions taken by school personnel, parents, and/or agency personnel to improve the behavior of school children. The focus of the interventions is limited to what are commonly referred to as behavior problems (or challenges) that are social, interpersonal, and emotional in their nature and effects; it does not address behaviors associated with poor achievement, such as reading, math or writing problems.
Developing, conducting, and monitoring behavior interventions with students (and their caretakers) are important activities for (at the very least) the following reasons:
- Disruptive behavior is an impediment to the effective management of learning environments.
- Student engagement in disruptive, unproductive behaviors often reduces the individual's educational progress and the progress of other students who are affected by these behaviors.
- Students who do ...
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- Adaptive Behavior Assessment
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Authentic Assessment
- Behavioral Assessment
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- Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook
- Career Assessment
- Classroom Observation
- Criterion-Referenced Assessment
- Curriculum-Based Assessment
- Fluid Intelligence
- Functional Behavioral Assessment
- Infant Assessment
- Intelligence
- Interviewing
- Mental Age
- Motor Assessment
- Neuropsychological Assessment
- Outcomes-Based Assessment
- Performance-Based Assessment
- Personality Assessment
- Portfolio Assessment
- Preschool Assessment
- Projective Testing
- Psychometric G
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- Responsiveness to Intervention Model
- Social–Emotional Assessment
- Sociometric Assessment
- Written Language Assessment
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- Learning Disabilities
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- School Actions
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- School Psychologist Roles
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- Consultation: Behavioral
- Consultation: Conjoint Behavioral
- Consultation: Ecobehavioral
- Consultation: Mental Health
- Counseling
- Diagnosis and Labeling
- Home–School Collaboration
- Multidisciplinary Teams
- Parent Education and Parent Training
- Program Evaluation
- Reports (Psychological)
- Research
- Responsiveness to Intervention Model
- School Reform
- School Psychology Organizations
- American Board of Professional Psychology
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- International School Psychology Association
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- National Association of School Psychologists
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