 | A 5 Is Against the Law! Social Boundaries – Straight Up! An Honest Guide for Teens and Young Adults
This book teaches young people ways to keep track of their feelings and behaviors. It may be especially helpful to people who have Asperger's syndrome. |
| A Practical Guide to Assessing Medical Issues Associated with Behaviorial/Psychiatric Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities - 2011
This book is about the possible interaction between medication and behavior problems. |
| A Practical Guide to Assessing Medical Issues Associated with Behavorial/Psychiatric Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
This book explains how medical issues may cause behavioral issues. |
| Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities
A workbook made for the parents of children with disabilities. The book has many ideas to help kids control their behavior. |
| Aggression and Other Disruptive Behavioral Challenges: Biomedical and Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment
People become agressive for many reasons, and there is no "one-way" to help them stop. This book helps readers think carefully about the reasons why a person may be agressive and describes many ways to support a person in stopping aggressive behavior. |
| Antecedent Assessment and Interventions
A book about how to provide care for individuals with developmental disabilities who have challenging behavior. |
| Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns - Revised and Expanded Ed
This book explains the "whys" and "hows" behind unusual or challenging behavior in persons who have Asperger syndrome. |
| Autism Every Day: Over 150 Strategies Lived and Learned by an Autism Consultant and Mom
This book explains the joys and challenges of parenting a child who has autism. |
| Behavior Modification for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Treatments and Supports - Volume I
This book is the first of two that is designed to give readers the most recent information on behavior modification and people with intellectual disabilities.
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| Behavior Modification for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Treatments and Supports - Volume II
Volume 2 of a book designed to update readers on some of the more recent developments in the field of dual diagnosis, as applied to those with intellectual disabilities.
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| Behavioral Outcomes of Deinstitutionalization for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Studies Conducted Between 1980 and 1999
This is a Policy Research Brief by the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota. It is a summary of the research studies showing changes in people's behavior after they left institutions.
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| Challenging Behavior and Developmental Disability
This textbook is about how to deal with difficult behavior. |
| Characteristics of Selective Mutism: Evidence For An Anxiety Related Etiology
This book provides the data of responses to questionnaires from over 400 families about Selective Mutism. The questionnaires have 165 questions, covering everything about Selective Mutism and the responses provide much needed info on the disorder. |
| Cognitive Counseling for Person with Special Needs
[This book] questions our motivation for applying behavior modification strategies to the complex issues of an individual with a disability. -- Gunnar Dybwad
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| Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Disabilities
This academic book is about many topics affecting people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Criminal Offenders with Mental Retardation: Risk Assessment and the Continuum of Community-Based Treatment Programs
A systematic, objective method of assessment to facilitate the development of clinically appropriate individualized community treatment programs. |
| Crisis: Prevention and Response in the Community
This book provides a look at crisis services for people with developmental disabilities and how they impact the surrounding community. |
| Designing Positive Behavior Support Plans (Second edition)
A book for providers, parents and students that outlines how to design positive behavior support plans for students with disabilities |
| Dr. Thompson's Straight Talk on Autism
A book with advice about supporting children who have autism. |
| Exploring Bullying with Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Photocopiable Workbook
This book has ideas to help both the bully, and the person being bullied. |
| Helping Parents with Challenging Children: positive family intervention
This is a workbook for parents of children who use challenging behavior. |
| HSA Press
HSA Press is a publisher of materials that promote person centered thinking and planning. |
| Hug Me, Touch Me (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain when it is, and is not OK to hug or touch other people. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Behavior Support for Crisis Prevention and Response
Positive and effective practices in supporting people in crisis in the community |
| Individualized Positive Behavior Support
A fact sheet about planning positive ways to support people who use challenging behavior. You can download it as a PDF file in either English or Spanish. |
| Jenny Speaks Out (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to help people talk about sexual abuse. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability A Social Approach
This book gives ideas on how to help people with intellectual disabilities guard against abuse. |
| Learning to Listen
Excellent text providing non-behavioral understanding of individuals who challenge our delivery systems. Through anecdotes, confessional tales, and analysis, we learn to ask different questions outside the models in which we have been schooled. |
| Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome A Guide to Emotional and Behavioral Strengths and Challenges
This book explains how to foster mental health in people with Down Syndrome. |
| Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS)
The MAS is a questionnaire designed to learn about a person's challenging behavior. It also has ideas about what to do next. |
| Nonviolent Communication: a language of compassion
Nonviolent Communication has proven effective in crisis and anger management, counseling, conflict resolution, and mediation. People also use the skills to help prevent domestic violence, child abuse, and school violence.
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| Parenting with Positive Behavior Support: a practical guide to resolving your child's difficult behavior
This book teaches parents positive ways to help kids manage their behavior. |
| Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum
This training curriculum is designed for training supervisors of direct support professionals in the values and practices of positive behavior support. |
| Positive behaviour support for people with intellectual disabilities: evidence-based practice promoting quality of life
A guide for Direct Support Professionals and others involved in developing support plans for people who use challenging behavior |
| Psychotherapy for Individuals with Intellectual Disability
This book explains how to provide psychotherapy treatment for people who have intellectual disability (ID). |
| Quandaries: Understanding mental illnesses in persons with developmental disabilities
This book is about understanding the differences between mental health and mental illness, specifically in persons with developmental disabilities. The book is appropriate reading for support staff and other professionals.
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| Reducing and eliminating restraint of people with developmental disabilities and severe behavior disorders: An overview of recent research
A research paper that gives a brief overview of the most recent research on efforts to reduce and eliminate restraining people with developmental disabilities. |
| Respectful Relationships and Effective Teaching
This new resource teaches in clear, everyday terms how to interpret behavioral messages from individuals with disabilities whose lives and actions are often misunderstood. |
| Shift Happens: Making the Shift to Proactive Behavior Management
A book to help staff learn how to be proactive rather than reactive toward behavior problems. |
| Supporting Victims (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to be a witness in a court trial. It also tells about what helps, is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This book reviews research and gives ideas on supporting people who use challenging behavior. |
| The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This is a graduate-level textbook. |
| The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This book reviews research and gives ideas on supporting people who use challenging behavior. |
| Trauma-Informed Behavioral Interventions: What Works and What Doesn't
This book is about how people with intellectual disabilities have been hurt by behavior programs, and what works best. |
| Understanding Death and Illness and What They Teach About Life: An Interactive Guide for Individuals with Autism or Asperger's and their Loved Ones
A book to help people with autism with questions they may have after the death of a loved one. |
| When Dad Died, 3rd Edition (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to have a parent die. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper |
| When Mum Died, 3rd Edition (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to have a parent die. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper |
| When Somebody Dies (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to have a close friend die. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. |
| Working with People with Challenging Behaviors: A Guide for Maintaining Positive Relationships
A manual for people who work with people with challenging behavior. It provides practical ways and skills to handle crisis situations and promote positive behavior. |
| Association for Positive Behavior Support
An international organization that seeks to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors. |
| Behavioral Education and Consultation Services
This organization helps parents, teachers, and employers to teach desirable behaviors and eliminate undesirable behaviors. |
| Circles of Support and Accountability
Circles of Support and Accountability is a program to help sex offenders return [safely] to communities after completing their sentence. |
| Integrated Service Delivery Team
A program assisting persons with dual diagnoses to remain in the community. |
| Jay Nolan Community Services
a Calfornia agency for people with autism which closed 13 group homes |
| Mandt Leadership Training
A training program helpful to DSPs as they support people with disabilites in stressful situations. The training is also helpful for managers in human service settings who want to improve their supervisory skills. |
| Mountain Regional Services, Inc.
A program in Wyoming especially for people who have dual diagnoses |
| Positive Approaches Institute
An eight day training workshop teaching DSPs and others new ways to support people who use challenging behaviors. Everyone learns to think about why people use these, and positive ways to help them stop. |
| The Learning Community for person centered practices
An informal network that seeks to create a community worldwide that shares knowledge about supporting people in having positive control over their lives. |
| The Taunton Jail Diversion Program
A program in the community of Taunton, Massachusetts. Its purpose is to divert people with mental illness or disability who are in contact with the criminal justice system from jail to community support services. |
| Training & Development Services
An agency in the state of Washington that provides a wide range of seminars, classes and consultation for agencies and staff serving those with disabilities. |
| Vermont Crisis Intervention Network
This program offers three kinds of support to help people in crisis. The first is monthly meetings to review people in crisis. Second is on-site consultation. Third is a residential crisis space for people who must leave their current home to get help.
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