The Behavior Code

A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

By: Jessica Minahan, Nancy Rappaport MD

Narrated by: Gina Rogers

The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.

The authors guide listeners through their FAIR Behavior Intervention Plan, a systematic approach to decoding the causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and developing effective measures to address them in schools. They demonstrate how the FAIR Plan can bring about positive change, even with students who exhibit anxious, withdrawn, oppositional, or inappropriately sexualized behaviors.

Drawing on developments in cognitive science and educational psychology, the authors begin with a simple premise: all behavior is communication. Crucially, the first step of their FAIR plan is to discover the function (F) of a student's behavior. They encourage the use of nonjudgmental curiosity aided by standard data collection methods such as antecedent, behavior, and consequence (ABC) studies. The authors then give listeners the tools to look beyond behaviors to implement targeted accommodations (A), interaction strategies (I), and appropriate response strategies (R). As they guide listeners through their framework, they offer ample case studies and focused thought exercises that allow listeners to fully understand and implement suggested strategies.

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extremely helpful

This book should be read by every classroom teacher and school personnel. It gives hope and strategies.

Dealing with difficult behavior

This book is packed full of beneficial information for teachers dealing with difficult student behaviors. I listened to it over and over again. Gina Roger's does an excellent job of narrating.

Las estrategias basadas en análisis funcional para la intervención con niños y niñas con conductas difíciles

Muy útil, claro y conciso. Una herramienta muy útil para todo docente y psicólogo. Sería muy deseable que estuviera en español.

wonderful and informative

This was a great listen. the information shared give instructors and students strategies that are doable.

Excellent information!

I am a new behavior consultant for a school district, and the information in this book is invaluable. If you are a teacher or work with young people in any capacity, this book will give you insight into what they are trying to communicate with their behavior. I recommend this book highly!