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behavior intervention  

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  • Behavior intervention refers to actions taken by school personnel, parents, and/or agency personnel to improve the behavior of school children. The focus of the interventions is limited to what are commonly referred to as behavior problems (or challenges) that are social, interpersonal, and emotional in their nature and effects; it does not address behaviors associated with poor achievement, such as reading, math or writing problems.Developing, conducting, and monitoring behavior interventions with students (and their caretakers) are important activities for (at the very least) the following reasons:1. [Source: Encyclopedia of School Psychology; Behavior Intervention]

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