Positive Behavior Facilitation: Understanding and Intervening in the Behavior of Youth (2nd ed) Overview This new edition of Positive Behavior Facilitation helps adults examine how they interact with youth, understand children’s behavior, and use effective interventions to facilitate permanent behavior change. The PBF approach challenges traditional models of discipline and control by providing school staff and others who work with youth with new ways of supporting youth and encouraging them to make positive behavioral decisions for themselves. The author provides updated details on how to use six PBF tools—practical and functional strategies necessary to comprehensively understand and effectively intervene in behavior. Tool 1: Awareness and Management of Self Tool 2: Knowledge of the Dynamics of Conflict Tool 3: Understanding the Differences between Behavior Management and Behavior Change Tool 4: Healing Environment Tool 5: Surface Behavior Management Techniques Tool 6: Effective Communication Praise for Positive Behavior Facilitation “Dr. Olive writes this book to encourage the adults who serve children and youth who defy instructions, overreact to minor frustrations, and have poor social skills and little motivation to learn.…PBF is the missing link that provides adults with a philosophical frame of reference, paired with effective strategies for succeeding with these youth.” —Nicholas J. Long, PhD, from the Foreword “Dr. Olive reminds us that there is a difference—an important difference—between managing behavior and changing behavior. She provides the reader (primarily educators but parents and others who are engaged in the lives of youth) with insight on how we can move beyond management and encourage positive behavioral change.” —Reclaiming Youth Newsletter Contents: Introduction—Behavior in the 21st Century and the Role of Positive Behavior Facilitation Chapter 1—Tools of Positive Behavior Facilitation Chapter 2—Tool 1: Awareness and Management of Self Chapter 3—Tool 2: Knowledge of the Dynamics of Conflict Chapter 4—Tool 3: Understanding the Differences between Behavior Management and Behavior Change Chapter 5—Tool 4: Healing Environment Chapter 6—Tool 5: Surface Behavior Management Techniques Chapter 7—Tool 6: Effective Communication Conclusion—You, as Messenger Afterword—Some Additional Thoughts about PBF and Behavior
Appendix A—The Language of PBF Appendix B—Techniques for Behavior Management and Behavior Change Appendix C—Questions for Assessing the Healing Environment Appendix D—Definitions of Surface Behavior Management Techniques Appendix E—The Charge of PBF
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