BICA Training Topic:

BOS - Behavioral Objective Sequence

Children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders present particularly complex management and discipline issues.  Unfortunately, the current focus is often on how to suppress or manage the many diverse problems these youth present, while little attention is given to contributing factors, or to the developmentally insensitive manner in which they are treated in schools and elsewhere.  This workshop will provide instruction on how to use the Behavioral Objective Sequence, a practical and critical tool for integrating functional assessment into a model for determining students’ level of social development, and for preparing intervention plans that are effective and developmentally appropriate.

Agenda:

• Characteristics of Students with Problem Behaviors: Contributing Factors and Implications for Assessment and Intervention

• Assessing Developmental Level of Social Performance: Identifying Developmentally Appropriate Objectives with the BOS

• The Curriculum for Teaching Prosocial Competencies

• Preparing Assessment-based and Developmentally Appropriate Intervention Plans

• Preparing Coordinated School-Community Agency Intervention Plans

• Demonstration of the BOS software

• Sheldon Braaten, Ph.D.  AUTHOR

• Susan Albrecht, Ed.D.

• Lynn Wilder, Ed.D.

• Kathi Wilhite, Ed.D.