Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training

Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.

This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).

• Features step-by-step guide to implementing Behavioral Skills Training (BST)
• Improves client problem behavior, independence, and autonomy
• Covers instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback
• Includes mastery criteria, online BST, and assessing social validity
• Provides chapter summary bullets of key points