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A Survey Of Positive Behavioral Supports In Juvenile Residential Facilities, Erin R. Veltman May 2017

A Survey Of Positive Behavioral Supports In Juvenile Residential Facilities, Erin R. Veltman

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The central focus of this project is a survey of programs and organizations serving youth labelled at-risk. This program study is to see how positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) systems versus consequence based behavioral management systems are used in programs for youth labelled at risk. It also surveys if PBIS systems are beneficial for working with this population. The methods used in this study were to generate a survey asking questions about the behavioral management systems used in the facilities and the effectiveness of the systems used. Results indicated that of the facilities surveyed, all of them worked with …