Positive Behavior Support Certificate - 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: a) Helping people improve the quality of their lives (personal, health, social, family, etc), and by b) 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. This 15-credit Graduate Interdisciplinary Certificate in Positive Behavior Support prepares students to serve as behavioral consultants to parents, teachers, direct care staff or others who support children or adults with disabilities and challenging behavior. The program of studies represents a comprehensive curriculum in Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) that blends: 1) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) with 2) a focus on, and respect for, each person's Quality of Life. Throughout the courses, certificate candidates will need access to children or adults with developmental disabilities (including ASD) and those who know them best (parents, teachers, staff, etc) in order to conduct assessments and implement interventions. Because these are long-distance courses and instructors cannot travel to observe, certificate candidates will be required to submit videotapes of themselves conducting different instructional and behavioral interventions. Therefore, certificate candidates will need informed consent from the person and/or parents or guardians and be familiar with FERPA requirements.

Accreditation

Northeastern University is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education; The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Cost : ($1.00)

Credits : -1