Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training, 1e

Peter Sturmey, Lindsay Maffei-Almodovar
Elsevier
310 pages
ISBN: 9780443160660
January 2025

Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy. This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).