Description
This comprehensive guide takes a multi-tiered approach to addressing absenteeism and truancy. In addition to schoolwide procedures to minimize absenteeism and truancy, Absenteeism & Truancy: Interventions and Universal Procedures outlines 25 research-based interventions for use with individual students, small groups, and classes.
These interventions address common functions that motivate students to miss school:
- Anger Management Training
- Behavior Contracting
- Bullying
- Check In/Check Out (CICO)
- Classroom Consultation
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Reduce Anxiety
- Cross-Age Peer Tutoring
- Establishing Classroom Expectations and Defining Limits
- Group Contingency
- Home Notes
- Increased Supervision/Structure
- Meaningful Work
- Mentoring
- Parent Training Type 1
- Parent Training Type 2
- Practice for Proficiency
- Precision Requests
- Principal’s 200 Club
- Problem Solving
- Repeated Reading Tutorial
- Response Cost
- Self-Management Skills
- Social Skills Training
- Structured Reinforcement Systems
- Substance Abuse
The interventions can be used by themselves or in conjunction with Functional Behavior Assessment of Absenteeism and Truancy.
Download all reproducible forms needed to quickly implement a group or individual intervention.