Arizona Positive Behavior Support (AZ PBS)

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• Apoyo para el Comportamiento Positivo

Positive Behavior Support - PBS is an approach to improving human behavior by making challenging behavior irrelevant, ineffective, and inefficient. This involves the combined efforts of:

1. Helping people improve the quality of their lives (personal, health, social, family, etc), and by

2. Replacing challenging behavior by teaching and reinforcing desirable behavior.

PBS employs research-validated behavioral practices of teaching and reinforcing behavior for individual children and adults as well as for groups of people (in classrooms, families, schools, etc). Attention is focused on understanding the conditions in the environment that contribute to challenging behavior, and modifying those conditions to strengthen desirable behavior.

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What the PBS program at NAU offers:

Positive Behavior Interventions and Support of Arizona program

This program provides training to schools and districts in implementing school-wide positive behavior support programs.

On-line Courses
NAU offers five courses that, when completed, results in a Graduate Certificate in Positive Behavior Support (PBS). After taking these courses, a few additional requirements entitle you to:

• Positive Behavioral Consultant

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst

• Habilitation - Behavior Consultant

Scholarship
PBS-CARES provide financial support for teachers pursuing a Masters degree in Special Education with emphasis on Low Incidence disabilities and Positive Behavior Support