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Overview Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is an approach to improving human behavior by arranging environments and contingencies to make challenging behavior unnecessary and preferred behavior easy and effective. This involves helping people improve the quality of their lives (e.g. personal, health, social, family) and replacing challenging behavior with socially acceptable alternative behavior. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the science behind PBS, and the courses in the PBS Certificate comprise a Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc. “Verified Course Sequence” or VCS.PBS employs research-validated behavioral practices of teaching and reinforcing behavior for individual children and adults as well as for groups of people including those in classrooms, families, schools, agencies and so forth. Attention is focused on understanding the conditions in the environment that contribute to challenging behavior and modifying those conditions to strengthen desirable behavior. This online Positive Behavior Support graduate certificate at Northern Arizona University fulfills the course requirement for becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst®. Graduates help parents, teachers, and others who support people with disabilities and challenging behavior. I want to find another Master Course OpportunitiesA graduate student may pursue a graduate certificate concurrently with a graduate degree. Each graduate degree program must decide which, if any, certificate courses can be counted toward the graduate degree.Students who are admitted to a graduate certificate program will be eligible for the official posting of the graduate certificate to their transcripts when all applicable coursework has been successfully completed and approved by the academic unit and the Graduate College.

This Positive Behavior Support graduate certificate at Northern Arizona University places a high value on inclusion in school and community, self-determination, and avoidance of restrictive and coercive strategies.

Disciplines

PsychologyEducational PsychologyOrganisational Behaviour

Requirements

Academic Requirements

gpa

English Requirements

IELTSMin 6.5
TOEFLMin 80

Other Requirements

1All requirements for your specific academic plan(s). This may include a thesis.All graduate work with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0.All work toward the master’s degree must be completed within six consecutive years. The six years begins with the semester and year of admission to the program.

Positive Behavior Support