NICHCY Connections...
to Behavior Expertise

NICHCY is pleased to connect you with sources of information for helping children who have behavior challenges. This particular Connections page is one of many focusing on behavior issues. That's because "behavior" is such a huge topic. We've divided the subject up into separate pages to make digesting it more manageable! The separate behavior pages are as follows:

• Behavior Expertise (you're here!)
• Behavior Assessment, Plans, and Positive Supports
• Behavior at Home
• Behavior at School
• Bullying

If you want all of these separate pages rolled up into one resource you can print out, photocopy, and share with others, we've combined them all into: Behavior: The Works.

The page you are currently reading focuses upon where to access Behavior Expertise. Within, you'll find who's who in the behavior field, and where to go for more information, reading, links, and assistance. The list below isn't intended to be exhaustive of the behavior resources and expertise available to you---it's ever-growing. We'll be adding to this page constantly, so check back often to see what's new! We'll mark new entries with a .

• The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports.
  www.pbis.org/english
  This site is great for administrators and school personnel who are working to put a school-wide system in place for dealing with disciplinary issues. You'll find info on Functional Behavioral Analysis (FBA), school-wide support, classroom support, individual support, family support, conferences, presentations, newsletters, tools, and links to further info. Truly, a great site, also available in Spanish from the home page. Check it out!
  
  
• Beach Center on Disability.
  www.beachcenter.org/default.asp?strResource=all&Submit=Go&submitFlag=true&id=9&act=view&type=topic
  Want to know why your child engages in problem behavior? Check out this guide to family-friendly resources from the Beach Center. Find out how to determine why a person with a disability engages in problem behavior and ways to support the individual in learning other ways to act. Read articles, personal stories, tip lists, and find out about other web sites, books, manuals, and reports on solving behavior problems.
  
  
• Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
  www.behavior.org/
  Did you know that the number and quality of words a child hears in the early years of life have a tremendous impact on the development of their brain? A child's vocabulary development is closely tied to their early language experiences and to their ability to think rationally, solve problems, and reason abstractly. Wow! This site can teach you how to help improve your child's language abilities. Specific information is available on autism, Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), behavior in everyday life, and parenting.
  
  
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice.
  http://cecp.air.org/
  This site has a "mini web site" on FBA, Prevention Strategies that Work, Prevention and Early Intervention, Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health, and Strength Based Assessment. You'll find a whole lotta pubs. Some are also available in Spanish.

• The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior.
  http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu
  The mission of the Center is to promote the use of evidence-based practice to meet the needs of young children who have, or are at risk for, problem behavior. Find research syntheses on effective intervention procedures, presentation and workshop materials, training opportunities, and a wide variety of useful links.
  

• The Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD).
  www.ccbd.net/
  This site offers monthly updates on legislation affecting children with behavioral disorders. It offers publications, message boards, an advocacy section, links to other sites, and a quarterly newsletter (available online, free of charge). CCBD is a membership organization, comprised of educators, parents, mental health personnel, and a variety of other professionals.
  
  
• Kentucky Behavior Page.
  www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html
  To help a child make a change in behavior for the better, you first need to identify the causes of the misbehavior. Check out the Behavior Home Page Discussion Forum, to see what experts in the field are saying. Get resources for supporting behavior on the school-wide, group, and individual levels. Check out links to state and federal legislation. Read about professional resources.
  
  
• Mental health.
  www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov
  Take a good look at this site. It has info on children's mental health, a mental health dictionary, a listing of Indian mental health resources, and a toll-free number to call for help and information. You'll also find pubs on autism, add, anxiety, depression, conduct disorder, anger management, and more. Selected publications are in Spanish.
  
  
• National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI).
  www.nami.org/
  You'll find a ton of info on this site. Check out the reader-friendly overview on mental illness. Join an on-line discussion group for family members. Read personal stories of children and teens with mental illness. Print out fact sheets, brochures, and reading lists. Follow links to other children and adolescent sites. Some resources are available in Spanish.
  
  
• Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health (RTC).
  http://rtc.pdx.edu/
  The RTC's activities focus on improving services to children and youth who have mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders. This friendly, well-organized web site hosts monthly on-line family discussions. Keep up-to-date on relevant political and policy news. Browse through dozens and dozens of recent publications.
  
  
• SchoolBehavior.com.
  www.schoolbehavior.com/index.htm
  This site is run by Leslie E. Packer, Ph.D. a psychologist who treats children and adolescents with Tourette's Syndrome and its associated conditions. Read succinct overviews of different disorders, including Tourette's syndrome, Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, Mood Disorder, Depression, Sleep Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Read classroom tips on how to deal with various behavior issues.
  
  
• School Violence Prevention Initiative.
  www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/schoolviolence
  Families, communities, and schools need to work together to conquer disruptive behavior disorders. This site offers tips for dealing with anger, managing conflict, and dealing with bullies. Learn the warning signs for violence. Read about successful research-based programs that build resilience to behavior disorders.
  

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• From AAMR.
  www.aamr.org/Periodicals/index.shtml
  The AAMR publishes (1) The American Journal on Mental Retardation, a scholarly research journal, (2) Mental Retardation, a practitioners journal of research, reviews, and opinions, and (3) AAMR FYI, an online newsletter, published 6 times/year.
  
  
• Behavior Modification.
  www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=152
  Formerly entitled the Behavior Modification Quarterly, this journal is for researchers, academics, and practitioners in clinical psychology. It covers a wide range of topics, including problem behavior, learning disabilities, and phobias. Check out a sample issue.
  
  
• Behavioral Interventions.
  www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/24375
  Get a sample copy of this journal for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, and researchers. It reports research and practices of the use of behavior techniques.
  
  
• British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
  www.bps.org.uk/publications/jDP_1.cfm
  This journal publishes discussion papers, and brief reports on all aspects of developmental psychology. You can order it online.
  
  
• British Journal of Educational Psychology.
  www.bps.org.uk/publications/jEP_1.cfm
  This journal publishes research on the understanding and practice of education.
  
  
• Child Development.
  www.srcd.org/cd.html
  This bimonthly journal covers topics in child development, from the fetal period through adolescence.
  
  
• Developmental Psychology.
  www.apa.org/journals/dev/description.htm
  Publishes articles that advance knowledge and theory about human development across the lifespan. View the current and past table of contents, online.
  
  
• Journal for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
  www.jrnldbp.com
  Written for physicians, clinicians, psychologist, and researchers, this journal covers developmental and psychosocial aspects of pediatric health care. Topics include learning disorders, developmental disabilities, and emotional, behavioral, and psychosomatic problems.

• Journal for the Education of Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR).
  www.csos.jhu.edu/jespar/past.htm
  JESPAR publishes literature and report reviews, research articles on promising reform programs, and case studies on "schools that work." Selected articles are available free of charge. Read the table of contents for the current issue, as well as issues back to 1996.
  
  
• Journal for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
  http://seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jeab
  
  
• Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
  http://seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jaba
  
  
• Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
  www.springerlink.com
  Abstracts of journal articles are available online. Select "Browse Publications A-Z," go to J and scroll through the J's until you come to Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. There are two listings. To view abstracts of articles appearing from 1997 to present, you want the second listing, which leads you to listings for the journal as published by Springer. The first listing is the Historical Archive of the journal when it was published by Kluwer Publishers.
  
  
• Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
  www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00057916
  View abstract, full text, and links of articles in current issue, for the current issue, and all issues back to 1970.
  
  
• Journal of Behavioral Education.
  www.kluweronline.com/ISSN/1053-0819
  Get a free issue of this journal. View articles from the current issue and past issues, back to 1997.
  
  
• Journal of Positive Behavioral Interventions.
  www.education.ucsb.edu/autism/jpbi.html
  This journal publishes research articles, discussions, literature reviews, and conceptual papers, programs and practices, family support and family perspectives, and reviews of published materials. Read table of contents and abstracts on issues back to 1999.
  
  
• Journal of School Psychology.
  www.elsevier.com/locate/jschpsyc
  In this journal, you'll find original articles on empirical research and practice relevant to the development of school psychology as both a scientific and an applied specialty.
  
  
• The Behavior Analyst.
  www.abainternational.org/tbajournal
  You can order this online. View the table of contents of the current issue and previous issue. Search journal abstracts. Read selected article reprints.
  

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Teachers

• American Federation of Teachers
  555 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
  202.879.4400 (phone)
  online@aft.org (e-mail)
  www.aft.org/ (web)
  

• National Education Association
  1201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
  202.833.4000 (phone)
  202.822.7974 (fax)
  www.nea.org/ (web)

Psychologists

• American Psychological Association
  750 First Street, NE, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20002-4241
  202.336.5500 (phone)
  www.apa.org/ (web)
  

• National Association of School Psychologists
  4340 East West Highway, Ste. 402, Bethesda, MD 20814
  301.657.0270 (phone)
  301.657.0275 (fax)
  301.657.4155 (tty)
  nasp@naspweb.org (e-mail)
  www.nasponline.org/index2.html (web)
  
  

Medical Doctors, Including Psychiatrists

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  141 Northwest Point Blvd., Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007
  847.228.5005 (phone)
  www.aap.org/ (web)

• American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children
  Child Welfare League of America, 440 First Street, NW, 3rd Floor
  Washington, DC 20001-2085
  202.942.0295 (phone)
  www.cwla.org/ (web)
  

• American Psychiatric Association
  1400 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
  202.682.6220 (phone)
  www.psych.org (web)
  
  
• American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
  P.O. Box 570218, Dallas, TX 75357-0218
  972.686.6166 (phone)
  972.613.5532 (fax)
  info@adolpsych.org (e-mail)
  www.adolpsych.org/ (web)
  

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  Child, Adolescent and Family Branch Center for Mental Health Services
  5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18-49, Bethesda, Md. 20857
  301.443.1333 (phone)
  800.789.2647 (toll-free phone)
  www.mentalhealth.org/child (web)
  www.aacap.org/ (web)
  
  
• Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health
  Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University
  212.543.6066 (phone)
  212.543.5260 (fax)
  www.kidsmentalhealth.org/ (web)
  

Counselors

• School Social Worker Association of America
  PO Box 2072, Northlake IL 60164
  847.289.4527; 847.289.4642 (phone)
  sswaa@aol.com (e-mail)
  www.sswaa.org/ (web)
  

• American School Counselor Association
  1101 King Street, Suite 625, Alexandria, VA 22314
  703.683.ASCA (phone)
  800.306.4722 (toll-free phone)
  703.683.1619 (fax)
  asca@schoolcounselsor.org (e-mail)
  www.schoolcounselor.org/ (web)
  

• American Counseling Association
  5999 Stevenson Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304
  703.823.0252 (phone)
  800.347.6647 (toll-free phone)
  703.823.6862 (tty)
  800.473.2329 (toll-free fax)
  www.counseling.org/ (web)
  
  

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• Behavior terms.
  www.coedu.usf.edu/abaglossary/main.asp
  This online database houses over 2,000 behavior-related terms. Whew! Who would've thought there could be so many?
  
  
• More behavior terms.
  www.thecol.org/guide/glossary.html
  This site provides a well-written glossary of general behavior terms.
  
  
• Behavioral health terms.
  www.uihealthcare.com/depts/uibehavioralhealth/patiented/glossary.html
  This behavioral health glossary gives definitions of mental health conditions, particularly personality disorders.
  
  
• Behavior intervention terms.
  www.usu.edu/teachall/text/behavior/BEHAVglos.htm
  This glossary, from Utah Students at Risk, covers behavioral intervention terms. At the bottom of each defined term is a PDF link to more information regarding that behavioral intervention.
  
  
• Treatment descriptions.
  www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/continum.htm
  Read these brief descriptions of different programs, settings, or treatments that children with mental illness may receive.
  
  
• Terms used in behavior research.
  www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/wasserman/Glossary/index%20set.html
  Defines all the terms used in behavior research, a la B.F. Skinner.

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