Publisher's Synopsis
BEHCA(R) is a methodology and series of tools informed by Torri Wright's two decades of work with children, parents, and teachers, and refined through her experiences as a licensed behavior consultant. With a career that began in special education, Wright quickly found that there was more at play when it came to managing challenging behaviors than simply addressing the behaviors themselves. By observing and tracking a series of environmental stimuli and situational factors, she uncovered new insights into the escalation and eventual triggering events that lead to certain behaviors. She also saw how data could provide more tangible and objective ways of better understanding the progression of her students' behaviors.
Throughout the book, Wright outlines a wide-variety of suggestions, interventions, and techniques for shifting perspectives on difficult behavior, providing parents, teachers, caregivers, and advocates a fresh and effective approach to navigating the complex world of behavior. In addition to the methodology, Wright has partnered with Germinate LLC to develop a web and smartphone app, allowing everyone involved in the care or support of a child's (or adult's) well-being the ability to track, review, and find correlations in behaviors and the various factors that may feed into them. BEHCA prompts people to use objective, standardized language, but includes space for subjective observations. And while many have found BEHCA to be intuitive and user-friendly, this book provides detailed examples for using the app at both home and at school.
