ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide practical suggestions for educators and teachers who have to deal with children who have behavioral problems in order to facilitate their adaptation to the class context and to support them in the course of their learning.
As for the interventions in the familial context, the ABC model is again a useful instrument for facilitating the functional analysis of problem behaviors enacted by children. It allows one to single out, on the one hand, each negative behavior, the contexts in which they are displayed and the factors that maintain them, and, on the other hand, each positive behavior that may deserve more attention.
Once a sufficiently clear picture has been obtained, one may intervene on trigger antecedents in order to limit or avoid situations in which problem behaviors may emerge (e.g., through the organization of the classroom and of materials, through the consolidation of routines and by setting shared rules), as well as on the consequences that follow (with specific techniques and procedures like the Time Out or the Token Economy).
