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Positive Behavior Support (PBS)

What is Positive Behavior Support?

Individualized Positive Behavior Support, referred to as Positive Behavior Support throughout this website, is a process for understanding and resolving the problem behavior of children that is based on values and empirical research. It offers an approach for developing an understanding of why the child engages in problem behavior and strategies for preventing the occurrence of problem behavior while teaching the child new skills. Positive behavior support offers a holistic approach that considers all factors that have an impact on a child and the child’s behavior. It can be used to address problem behaviors that range from aggression, tantrums, and property destruction to social withdrawal.

How Can I Implement Positive Behavior Support (PBS)?

To successfully implement PBS, it is essential that each of the of the following six steps is followed in the designated order: (1) Building a Behavior Support Team; (2) Person-Centered Planning; (3) Functional Behavioral Assessment; (4) Hypothesis Development; (5) Behavior Support Plan Development; and (6) Monitoring Outcomes.

There are three ways you can learn more about how to successfully implement PBS:

1. If this is your first time learning about PBS, you can start here to be walked through each step in order.
2. If you already know about PBS and would like to skip around, you can use the links on the "Six Steps of PBS" home page to review information about each step in whatever order you wish.
3. If you would like to have a complete reference that outlines the entire PBS process, you can download a Word document to print out and take with you. For your convenience, this comprehensive reference also includes links to all the forms, information sheets and worksheets as well as websites and resources in easy-to-access sections at the end of the document.

Case Studies

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Resources

• Tips and Ideas for Making Visuals
• Social Story Tips and Samples
• Positive Beginnings Training Modules
  Six modules that offer inservice and preservice educators materials to provide training to early interventionists, early educators, and related service professionals in the Positive Behavior Support process.

Web Presentations

• Implementing Positive Behavior Supports within Local Systems
  The adoption of a program-wide, tiered model of social emotional and behavior intervention is being promoted as an effective practice, but what does it take administratively to ensure fidelity of implementation? Lise Fox of TACSEI provides a brief description of a program-wide model and introduces Linda Broyles of the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program (SEK-CAP) who describes the administrative actions necessary for program-wide model adoption, implementation fidelity, and sustaining the effort over time. Linda Broyles is the Deputy Director of SEK-CAP, Inc. and the Director of Early Childhood Services and has championed the program-wide adoption of Positive Behavior Support within her regional Head Start program that is currently in its 7th year of implementation. (January, 2008)