Question: Punishment in Schools
Some schools employ punishment procedures on a regular basis and have done so for decades. Other schools exert overly controlling, contrived, and coercive disciplinary practices. For this assignment, you should reflect on your own experiences and describe a personal encounter when you witnessed or experienced overly restrictive, or harsh, punitive, and/or ineffective punitive methods in a school setting.
Based on the assigned readings for this unit, as well as the BACB Content Area 1 of the Task List (referenced in Unit 1), describe and discuss three use of reinforcement-based procedures that could be used to reduce problem behaviors in a school. In your assignment, you must also identify and describe the potential side effects of overly restrictive or harsh punitive methods in a school setting. In addition, discuss potential ethical considerations for the use of punishment in schools.
Give example(s) of overly restrictive, harsh, and/or ineffective punitive methods in a school setting. Examine potential side effects of using punishment in a school. Analyzes ethical considerations for the use of punishment in schools. Describe reinforcement-based ABA procedures that could be used to reduce problem behaviors in schools.
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Website icon Task List Content Area 1: Ethical Considerations.
Website icon ABA Library Research Guide.
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