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With more and more challenging children and youth being integrated into regular education classrooms, teachers and aides are frequently overwhelmed by distracting, disruptive, even dangerous behaviors. State mandates to include positive behavioral interventions succeed at the school level, but often fail in individual classrooms when educators lack the skills and insights needed to productively engage these youngsters.
Therapeutic Behavior Management (TBM) offers 1-day or 2-day training programs in verbal crisis management techniques, with an optional extra day for selected physical interventions.
It is designed specifically for educators working with troubled children and youth in public or alternative school classrooms.
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| What is Positive Behavioral Support? |
The Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) approach for schools has grown out of the work of George Sugai and Robert Horner at the University of Oregon. PBIS offers a systemic approach to creating positive learning and teaching environments, setting clear and positive expectations of productive school behavior. Many schools are currently implementing successful PBIS strategies, but need more specific training in management of disruptive classroom and hallway behavior.
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| What is Therapeutic Behavior Management? |
Therapeutic Behavior Management (TBM) is a school-based training which applies many PBIS concepts to the world of emotionally and behaviorally disordered students. TBM arms educators with specific insights and skills needed to better manage problems which threaten a positive learning environment.
It is based on an established crisis intervention program, Therapeutic Aggression Control Techniques (TACT-2), in use in many group homes, day treatment centers, and alternative schools.
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The contents of the TBM program deliberately include skills, concepts and insights which support the implementation of a PBIS model. In a highly interactive fashion:
DAY 1 teaches staff to better understand the nature of misbehavior, and to recognize the role we sometimes play in escalating problems.
DAY 2 focuses on developing specific skills, such as listening, problem solving, and applying reasonable consequences.
DAY 3 (optional) provides structured training in selected self-protection, escort, and/or physical restraint techniques.
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