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Arizona Positive Behavior Support

"Helping Caregivers Improve the Lives and Behavior of those they Support"

Positive Behavior Support - PBS is an approach to improving human behavior by making challenging behavior irrelevant, ineffective, and inefficient. This involves the combined efforts of:

1. Helping people improve the quality of their lives (personal, health, social, family, etc), and by
2. Replacing challenging behavior by teaching and reinforcing desirable behavior.

PBS employs research-validated behavioral practices of teaching and reinforcing behavior for individual children and adults as well as for groups of people (in classrooms, families, schools, etc). Attention is focused on understanding the conditions in the environment that contribute to challenging behavior, and modifying those conditions to strengthen desirable behavior.

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On-line Graduate Certificate in Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports of Arizona (PBISAz) Scholarship Program for M.Ed. in Special Education and PBS (PBS-CARES) Overview of Positive Behavior Support Un Sumario del Apoyo para el Comportamiento Positivo Order video tape of PBS conferences!

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

Daniel Davidson, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 5630
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5630
Phone: (928) 523-7035
Fax: (928) 523-9127
TDD: (928) 523-1695
Email: Daniel.Davidson@nau.edu

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