The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide To Understanding And Teaching The Most...

The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide To Understanding And Teaching The Most Challenging Students by Jessica Monahan and Nancy Rappaport, MD.

Jessica’s First Book, The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, with Nancy Rappaport, was published by Harvard Education Press, April 19, 2012.

Learn a systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.

The Behavior Code reveals a systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track so they can learn effectively.

The Behavior Code provides the conceptual background for breaking the code of the four most challenging students in the classroom: students with anxiety-related, oppositional, withdrawn and sexualized behaviors. The book provides, in a user-friendly format, a different kind of behavior intervention plan — we call it the FAIR plan — that outlines effective interventions for students demonstrating these challenging behaviors.

"The Behavior Code is truly a godsend. Concisely written and easy to read, this book offers a framework for creating successful behavioral plans. I predict that once teachers and principals begin to apply the authors’ approach for understanding and changing problematic behavior, they’ll never look elsewhere for help again. Buy it, read it, use it, read it again and again—and pass it on!"

William S. Pollack

associate clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School