Applied Behavior Analysis in the Classroom

by Patrick Schloss, Maureen A. Schloss

Written for professionals in both general and special education, this book is a complete description if applied behavior analysis and how it can be used with students displaying a range of excessive and deficit behaviors. In addition to traditional topics covered in other applied behavior books, this reference devotes substantial attention to preventing problems through anecdotal control, social skill development and emotional learning. Topics include increasing appropriate behavior through related personal characteristics; increasing appropriate behavior through consequence control; positive approaches to decreasing inappropriate behavior; punishment; graphing, and more. Behavior analysts, teachers of any level.

356 pages, Paperback

First published December 29, 1997