The most effective strategies for addressing challenging behavior are primarily focused on prevention of challenging behavior and promotion of appropriate social behaviors. These strategies include environmental manipulations, providing positive attention and feedback to children, and teaching social skills and emotional competencies. Even when these practices are in place, some young children will engage in challenging behavior.
Participants will dive into pro-social behavior support as well as strategies supporting the understanding that challenging behaviors oftentimes necessitates the use of a process in which goals are set, data collection occurs, the function of the behavior is determined, and a comprehensive behavior support plan is developed based on the function of the challenging behaviors, implemented consistently, and monitored to ensure success.
