The Behavior Code, Jessica Minahan
The Behavior Code, Jessica Minahan
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The Behavior Code
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

Author: Jessica Minahan, Nancy Rappaport, MD

Narrator: Gina Rogers

Unabridged: 13 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/27/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.

The authors guide listeners through their FAIR Behavior Intervention Plan, a systematic approach to decoding the causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and developing effective measures to address them in schools. They demonstrate how the FAIR Plan can bring about positive change, even with students who exhibit anxious, withdrawn, oppositional, or inappropriately sexualized behaviors.

Drawing on developments in cognitive science and educational psychology, the authors begin with a simple premise: all behavior is communication. Crucially, the first step of their FAIR plan is to discover the function (F) of a student's behavior. They encourage the use of nonjudgmental curiosity aided by standard data collection methods such as antecedent, behavior, and consequence (ABC) studies. The authors then give listeners the tools to look beyond behaviors to implement targeted accommodations (A), interaction strategies (I), and appropriate response strategies (R). As they guide listeners through their framework, they offer ample case studies and focused thought exercises that allow listeners to fully understand and implement suggested strategies.

Bonus material: This audiobook includes supplemental material in printable PDF format.

About Jessica Minahan

Jessica Minahan is a board-certified behavior analyst and special educator who serves as the director of behavioral services at the Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents group practice in Newton, Masssachusetts, and as a consultant to clients nationwide. She is coauthor of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on December 08, 2017

Read this for a CPI class in my MA program. For a textbook, it was decently priced and a real easy and quick read. However, as an MA student and a teacher for a few years this was redundant and simple. There really wasn't too much relevant information or thought-provoking points. Decent for new teac......more

Goodreads review by Julie ♡ on February 26, 2025

There are some good nuggets of information in here that help educators see why kids act the way they do, but it often feels too clinical in it's approach and spends most of the book focused on kids who are elementary aged. As a secondary teacher, some of the "whys" still make sense, but the implemen......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on June 23, 2024

Full of important strategies and, more importantly, ways to implement those strategies. I liked how it was broken up into sections based on the type of behavior displayed. Unfortunately not especially pertinent to the educational work I do, but contained enough tidbits to be worth the listen.......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on January 25, 2023

It was really helpful in my line of work. I will definitely come back to it for guidance!......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on August 10, 2018

Hands down the best book I've come across to deal with my challenging students. Some of the student profiles were painfully accurate.......more