Developing and Implementing Intensive Individualized Interventions: Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children

Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children

NEW EDITION COMING SOON! A practical, reader-friendly guide that explores how to improve social-emotional development and prevent challenging behaviors of young children in preschool settings. bpub.fyi/PTR-YC

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Today’s Session

• Importance of understanding challenging behavior
• Overview of PTR-YC: A model of individualized PBS
• Using Prevent strategies

What is PTR-YC?

A model of individualized Positive Behavior Support designed for implementation in group settings (e.g., pre-K classrooms) serving young children. A standardized model designed to enhance.

Who/What is it for?

• Young children with the most severe (troublesome) challenging behaviors
• Behaviors that have proven resistant to evidence-based universal and secondary procedures
• To be used by classroom teams (including EC professionals) committed to helping children learn adaptive and appropriate social-emotional behaviors

Intensive Intervention

Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC) by G. Dunlap, K. Wilson, P. Strain, & J.K. Lee

Features of PTR-YC

• Research-based Practices
• Assessment and Intervention
• Team-driven decision-making
• Manualized, with detailed steps for designing and implementing intervention plans
• Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) include at least 3 components:
  • Prevent (antecedent manipulations)
  • Teach (instruction on social-communication skills)
  • Reinforce (consequences)

Process of PTR-YC

1. Teaming and Goal Setting
2. Practical Data Collection
3. Functional Behavioral Assessment (PTR-YC Assessment)
4. Intervention

Step 1: Teaming & Goal Setting

• Identify relevant team members, including families, caregivers.
• Team meeting to discuss and identify goals.
• Begin process with one target challenging behavior to reduce.
• One target appropriate behavior to improve (e.g. social emotional skill).

Step 2: Practical Data Collection (for progress monitoring)

• Team identifies data to collect (based on goals identified by the team), using behavior rating scales.
• Data collection method identified (what, when, how).
• Data collection needs to be efficient, valid, and reliable.

Step 3: Functional Behavioral Assessment

1. Indirect measure in a checklist format to identify antecedents and environmental influences.
2. Determine function and identify effective reinforcers for challenging and desirable behaviors.
3. Gather relevant information and develop hypothesis statement.

Step 4: Intervention

• Menu of intervention options with complete descriptions; examples and considerations included.
• 3 categories of interventions: Prevent, Teach, Reinforce.

Step 5: Using Data for Data-based Decision Making & Next Steps

• Progress monitoring using simple, feasible data that reflect the most important outcomes.

Wrapping Up and Moving Forward

• Meet periodically.
• Consider adding behaviors to Behavior Intervention Plan.
• Share with families; share with colleagues.
• Celebrate successes.

Summary

• Important to understand challenging behavior.
• PTR-YC is a 5-step process, a model of individualized Positive Behavior Support.
• 5 classroom practices including Prevent strategies.
• Second Edition of PTR-YC coming soon!

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