6. Focused Support Strategies: Building Prevention into Practice

The best crisis management is to avoid the crisis in the first place.

Focused Support Strategies provides participants with technically grounded, proactive behavioral procedures designed to reduce—and where possible eliminate—the need for reactive strategies. Participants examine how reinforcement, antecedent variables, stimulus control, and other focused procedures can be individualized based on assessment findings rather than applied as generic behavior-management techniques.   (Prerequisite: Module 1)

Key training topics

·      Time-based schedules and density of preferred events

·      Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)

·      Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Responding (DRL)

·      Alternative-response reinforcement, including DRA and DRI

·      The 100% rule

·      Reinforcer selection and reinforcement schedules

·      Antecedent control

·      Stimulus control

·      Instructional control

·      Transfer and fading of stimulus control

·      Stimulus satiation

·      Fading toward natural conditions

·      Integrating Focused Support with Positive Programming