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By Zainab Fazal, M.ADS, BCBA

bSci21 Contributing Writer

On June 22, 2015, I received a phone call from a staff at a local residential home serving adults with developmental disabilities. With a lot of excitement, she asked if I watched NBC Dateline the night before. Before I could answer, in even more excitement, she said, 'that guy did that strategy you were talking about in class!'

Let me give you a little insight into what she was talking about. She was referring to the segment on NBC Dateline called 'My kid would never do that: gun safety', and the guy was Dr. Raymond Miltenberger.You can check out the segment here.

If you teach anyone, anything, behavior analysis has a secret to share with you. It's the strategy the staff was talking about – Behavior Skills Training (BST). It is a method to teach students, staff, parents, and anyone else you are teaching a new skill. Dr. Miltenberger defines BST as 'a procedure consisting of instruction, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills' (2004, p. 558). And that's exactly what it is, a 4-step teaching strategy that works!

BST teaches a person what to do — that is, what behaviors to engage in under a particular circumstance.It allows for practice within the program so that the person can become fluent with the skills.It is an effective train-the-trainer procedure. And perhaps most importantly, can be individualized to each person. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

Let's break down each of the steps:

Instruction – Provide a description of the skill, its importance or rationale, and when and when not to use the skill. Repeat this step as necessary.

Modeling – Show your participant how to perform the skill. In-vivo modeling is recommended.

Rehearsal – Practice, practice, and practice! Allow the participant opportunities to practice the skill. Recent research suggests that participants should be able to practice in-situ. The trainer should record data on correct and incorrect responding during this step.

Feedback – The trainer should provide positive praise for correct responding and some form of corrective feedback for incorrect responses.

Some requirements before you can implement a BST program include: the person receiving the training must have the pre-requisite skills required for the behaviors you are teaching, the skill must include a chain of behaviors (a number of skills), and you must be able to role-play or video model the skills.

In a Registered Behavior Technician training course I was providing, I used BST to teach various skills to participants. Any skill I was teaching that met the afore-mentioned requirements I taught using BST. Based on the feedback forms from eight cohorts, participants reported that they enjoyed and learned the most when they got to practice the skills being taught, and got immediate feedback.

Here's an example of how it was used in the training. The skill was implementing preference assessments with clients.

Instructions were provided on why preference assessments are done, when and with whom to do them, how to use the data sheet, the materials required, and how to complete the assessment.

I modeled completing a preference assessment, using one of the course participants as my 'client.'

Participants paired up and practiced administering the preference assessment with their colleagues.Participants were able to practice the skill as each preference assessment included 30 trials!

I went to each group and provided feedback on what each person was doing correctly and incorrectly.

What have been your experiences with Behavior Skills Training? Let us know in the comments below. Also, be sure to subscribe to bSci21 via email to receive the latest articles directly to your inbox!

Recommended Readings:

Johnson, B.M., Miltenberger, R.G., Egemo-Helm, K., Jostad, C. J., Flessner, C., & Gatheridge, B. (2005). Evaluation of behavioural skills training for teaching abduction-prevention skills to young children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 38, 67-78.

Miles, N.I., & Wilder, D.A. (2009). The effects of behavioral skills trainingon caregiver implementation of guided compliance. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42(2), 405-410.

Miltenberger, R. (2004). Behaviour Modification: principals and procedure (3^rd ed.) Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Publishing.

Miltenberger, R.G., Flessner, C., Batheridge, B., Johnson, B., Satterlund, M., & Egemo, K. (2004). Evaluation of behavioural skills training procedures to prevent gun play in children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 513-516.

Steward, K.K., Carr, J.E., & LeBlanc, L.A. (2007). Evaluation of family-implemented behavioural skills training for teaching social skills to a child with asperger's disorder. Clinical Case Studies, 6, 252-262.

Zainab Fazal, M.ADS, BCBA, began her career in the developmental disabilities field in 2002, and has dedicated her clinical work and research in the area of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). She has worked for many years in assessing and developing comprehensive programs plans for children, youth, and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), learning disabilities, other developmental disabilities, behavioural challenges and mental health issues. Her recent work includes training front-line staff and teachers to use ABA in therapeutic and school settings, and has successfully trained individuals for the Registered Behaviour Technician credential with the Behaviour Analyst Certification Board. She is also an adjunct professor at Seneca College teaching ABA courses in the Behavioural Sciences program. Zainab is the founder and director of Phoenix Behaviour Services, a private practice in Toronto, Canada. You can follow her on twitter @Phoenix_ABA and reach her at zainab@pbxs.ca.

Within the Emotional and Behavioral Health Area of Emphasis, the Waisman Center works to promote healthy social and emotional development. We support positive behaviors for individuals with developmental disabilities and special health care needs, including co-occurring mental health conditions. Emotional health, expression of positive behaviors, and social skills are foundational to an individual's success, beginning in infancy and progressing across the lifespan. When not addressed, challenging behaviors such as aggression, destruction, or self-injury can result in a greater restriction of life opportunities.

Research and practice demonstrate that a blend of positive practices systematically implemented increases the success of individuals with developmental disabilities who are experiencing complex behavioral and mental health challenges. With proper support across settings, individuals who exhibit challenging behaviors can successfully live, be educated, work, and recreate in the community.

Areas of UCEDD activity focus are: infant and early childhood; family mental health and outreach; and consultation for challenging behaviors for people with developmental disabilities and special health care needs.

Challenges to Emotional and Behavioral Health

Identification and Intervention for Mental Health Needs. Identifying and accessing appropriate interventions at the earliest signs of mental health and behavioral challenges can be daunting for both families and the health and educational professionals providing supports to children, youth, and adults with these challenges. There is increased recognition of mental health disturbances in very young children including disturbances in mood; difficulties in regulation of feeding, sleep, or attention; sensory or relational difficulties; and withdrawn or aggressive behavior (Clark, 2010). For individuals with developmental disabilities and other special health care needs, the social and emotional needs associated with healthy development are often overlooked until these challenges escalate into behavior challenges.

How do we go about assuring that all providers and agencies have the proper screening tool and strategies as well as effective training protocols?

Relationship-Based Context for Intervention. All learning, behavior, and socialization occur in the context of relationships. The promotion of healthy social emotional development begins in infancy and continues throughout the lifespan. Early onset of severe and persistent emotional and behavioral issues in children with developmental disabilities can sometimes prevent the development of these important relationships. The development of strong and healthy relationships in early childhood lays the foundation for all later relationships. For adults, the therapeutic relationships across the various providers is a key component to a successful supported lifestyle.

How can family members and providers be educated and supported effectively and in a timely manner in order to establish and maintain these essentials emotional bonds?

Bias toward People with Disabilities. The belief that people with developmental disabilities and challenging behaviors cannot participate in community life with appropriate supports is a common occurrence. This notion is compounded by those who also have mental health issues. It is imperative that families recognize potential trajectories for their children within community life, regardless of the level of support that may be needed. Too often, professionals and community members prepare families for a more limited future based solely on a diagnosis and observable behaviors, rather than a combination of possibilities within the child, family, and community. For families with young children, this often begins in the early childhood years. Their children are not accepted into child care settings due to behavioral or other special needs, and these types of exclusions continue throughout the school years. For adults in supported living, 'Severe Reputations' may emanate from past incidents that may have only occurred a few times and within the context of poorly-planned supported lifestyles.

How do we go about educating families, professionals as well as attitudes within communities to how people with disabilities and mental health challenges can thrive in the community, with proper support; and furthermore, how communities can be enriched though the participation of people with disabilities and mental health challenges?

Safety. Assuring safety for individuals with challenging behaviors, providers, and citizens is an essential component of a well-crafted community support plan. When safety issues are not properly addressed, children are at risk for out-of-home placement or segregated education. A growing number of preschoolers are expelled from child care settings each year due to challenging behaviors (Gilliam, 2005). Schools struggle with providing individualized special education in the least restrictive environment and recognizing parent and child rights while also looking out for the safety of all children. Children struggling with emotional regulation issues that are not addressed often continue to experience emotional volatility in adult years. Adults are at risk for arrest, unnecessary psychiatric stays, or institutionalization. In developing programs that assure safety, Community Support Teams sometimes need to incorporate more intensive strategies. These approaches sometimes need to also include what are termed Restrictive Measures. When developed properly and incorporated within positive behavioral supports, Restrictive Measures can protect individuals, providers, and the community from those low frequency and high intensity behaviors that may include aggression, destruction, or self-injury.

How do we assist these teams in considering whether to use restrictive measures, and if so, how they can be used for the purpose of safety and not as a form of punishment or potential abuse?

Education and Training of educational and healthcare professionals, including those in mental health fields, as well as direct support providers and families is a key component to successful school and community life for people with challenging behaviors. Many professionals earn their degrees and practice without specific knowledge of very young children or people with developmental disabilities who also have mental health and behavioral needs. Without appropriate training, disparities in access to appropriate services will continue throughout the lifespan. In the early childhood years, this means increasing the capacity of early care and educational providers from diverse programs (e.g., child care, Head Start, schools, Birth to 3, home visiting, family resource centers) to address the emotional and learning needs of all children. The challenge is to create a coordinated, cross-system professional development system that reaches all people who touch the lives of children. This cross-system attention to professional development is also necessary for professionals working with adults. In both early childhood and supported community programs for adults, direct care positions are typically under-funded, which results in low wages and leads to high turnover rates. Additionally, provider agencies often do not have access best practice training strategies related to challenging behaviors and/or do not have the resources to properly educate the direct providers.

How do we go about assuring that there are an adequate number of providers who are educated, adequately compensated supervised, and remain in their positions over time?

Service to Individuals and Families

• Community TIES provides outreach behavioral consultation to individuals with DD, parents, provider agencies and schools. The Community TIES program has blended various approaches in establishing this style of positive behavioral supports that also promotes Community Inclusion. The approach subscribes to the belief that people with disabilities and challenging behaviors can thrive in the community with proper supports.
• TIES Clinic offers psychiatric consultation to patients with DD and co-occurring mental health issues
• Adaptations and Modifications Program offers environmental accommodations to living spaces that assure safety and promotes continued participation in community life.
• The Waisman Early Childhood Program provides an enriching environment that supports healthy social and emotional development in young children and supports young children with challenging behaviors in an inclusive early childhood environment.
• The Waisman Center Clinics offer assessments of social emotional development, parent child interactions, and challenging behaviors within interdisciplinary clinical evaluations. The clinics include highly qualified professionals (e.g., psychologists, developmental pediatricians, and speech and language therapists) who are able to conduct assessments and make recommendations for interventions to address social and behavioral challenges in children and youth with developmental disabilities and special health care needs.

Pre-Service Training

Outreach Consultation on Challenging Behaviors

• The Community TIES Program offers field placements (one or two semesters) for UW Social Work and Rehabilitation Psychology Undergraduate and Masters students. Experiences focus on the development of consultation skills for providing positive behavior supports to address challenging behaviors.
• Community TIES also serves as a rotation site for UW Psychiatric Residents. In this experience, residents learn about behavioral and medical management of psychiatric disorders. http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/cedd/Student_Postdoc_Opportunities/field_experiences.php

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Community Training and Technical Assistance

Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health

• The Waisman Center collaborates with, the UW-Madison Department of Psychiatry and the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health, on the Capstone Certificate Program in Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health, University of Wisconsin. This Capstone Certificate Program is an intensive, interdisciplinary, one or two year academic program for practicing professionals from the disciplines of mental health, health, social services and education who work with families in the prenatal and postpartum periods and with children ages birth through five years.
• Social Emotional Foundations in Early Learning (SEFL) is a statewide professional development initiative adapted for Wisconsin through a partnership with the national Center for Social Emotional Foundations in Early Learning http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/ . Staff of the Early Childhood Professional Development Hub of the Waisman Center serve on the State Leadership team and are members of a cohort of approved SEFEL trainers. who provide training on social and emotional development in a variety of early childhood settings.

School Age Children/ Youth and Adults

• Training and Consultation is a comprehensive offering of seminars and trainings for caregivers, support brokers/case managers, consumers, families, program administrators/supervisors and anyone interested in learning more about related topics in the field of Developmental Disabilities. Training and Consultations has a series of seminars related to behavioral support.
• Behavioral Consultations are offered through Community TIES. Short term consultations for individual with DD and challenging behaviors for provider agencies, Family Care programs, families and schools across Wisconsin are provided

Advisory Group Membership

UCEDD staff and faculty serve on the following committees and boards relevant to this Area of Emphasis:

• State Leadership Team for the Social Emotional Foundations in Early Learning
• Participation on committees to provide direction and oversight for use of positive behavioral supports that also include Restrictive Measures
  • Statewide for children receiving waiver services
  • Family Care – Care Wisconsin
  • Dane County Human Services children and adults

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Key References

Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health

• Zeanah, C. H., Jr. (Ed.). (2009). Handbook of infant and mental health. (3rd edition). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
• Landy, S. (2002). Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children. Baltimore, MD: Paul H Brookes Publishing Co.

School Age Children/ Youth and Adults

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Influences on positive behavioral supports

Foundational:

• John McGee – Gentle Teaching
• Dr. Herbert Lovett – Integrated approach to Challenging Behaviors

Current:

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• David Pitonyak – Relationships and Challenging Behaviors
• Martha R Leary -Accommodations and sensory regulation

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