Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations). - Features step-by-step guide to implementing Behavioral Skills Training (BST) - Improves client problem behavior, independence, and autonomy - Covers instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback - Includes mastery criteria, online BST, and assessing social validity - Provides chapter summary bullets of key points - Provides a resource that is appropriate for clinical practice and ABA certification review

Professor Peter Sturmey is a retired professor of psychology who remains active in research and writing. He brings more than 30 years of experience working with children and adults with developmental disabilities as a volunteer; camp counselor; researcher; clinical psychologist in the British National Health Service; Chief Psychologist in developmental centers in Texas; consultant for many community services; and consultant to the states of Louisiana and Wyoming. Prof. Sturmey brings more than two decades of experience in supervising Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral-level Applied Behavior Analysis students' research. He is affiliated with Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Brock University, Ontario; and Endicott University, Massachusetts. Prof. Sturmey has authored or edited more than 35 books, including Elsevier's Functional Analysis in Clinical Treatment; A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior; and Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training.Dr. Lindsay Maffei-Almodovar, PhD, BCBA, LBA has worked in the field of education for 17 years. She is a New York State certified classroom teacher and has taught in general and special education classrooms and in home-based environments. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has worked in a variety of roles, often involving both direct care service and staff support, development, and training. Her research focuses on caregiver training, specifically for direct care staff. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar has published staff training research in Behavior Analysis in Practice as well as a meta-analysis on staff training in the Review Journal on Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She also has published chapters in the Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology the Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Maffei-Almodovar is currently the ABA Training & Development Coordinator of the QSAC Preschool, Whitestone Day School and Bronx Day School.