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Tier II Interventions within the Framework of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: Essential Features for Design, Implementation, and Maintenance
Behavior Analysis in Practice (2010)
  • Cynthia M. Anderson, University of Oregon
  • Christopher Borgmeier, Portland State University
Abstract

To meet the complex social behavioral and academic needs of all students, schools benefit from having available multiple evidence-based interventions of varying intensity. School-wide positive behavior support provides a framework within which a continuum of evidence-based interventions can be implemented in a school. This framework includes three levels or tiers of intervention; Tier I (primary or universal), Tier II (secondary or targeted), and Tier III (tertiary or individualized) supports. In this paper we review the logic behind school-wide positive behavior support and then focus on Tier II interventions, as this level of support has received the least attention in the literature. We delineate the key features of Tier II interventions as implemented within school-wide positive behavior support, provide guidelines for matching Tier II interventions to school and student needs, and describe how schools plan for implementation and maintenance of selected interventions.

Keywords
  • Tier II interventions,
  • Prevention,
  • Problem behavior in schools,
  • School-wide positive behavior support,
  • Secondary interventions
Publication Date
2010
Citation Information
Cynthia M. Anderson and Christopher Borgmeier. "Tier II Interventions within the Framework of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: Essential Features for Design, Implementation, and Maintenance" Behavior Analysis in Practice Vol. 3 Iss. 1 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_borgmeier/11/