FAB Functionally Alert Behavior Strategies: Integrated Behavioral, Developmental, Sensory, Mindfulness & Massage Treatment

Are you a therapist or teacher struggling with students who tantrum, don’t pay attention, swear, scream, hit, bite, and throw chairs? Even the most skilled therapists and teachers cannot improve the skills of student’s who are yelling or kicking them. Are you tired of being given either no help or impractical advice by “experts” who haven’t actually tried what they are asking you to do? “Functionally Alert Behavior” FAB Strategies® is a pioneering book offering practical transdisciplinary interventions that help students with complex behavioral challenges. FAB Strategies integrates diverse developmental, positive behavior support, sensory modulation, mindfulness, massage, art, music, exercise, and physical self-regulation interventions. Therapists and teachers have difficulty working with students who have behavioral, developmental, post-traumatic stress, sensory modulation, and cognitive challenges. To improve these students’ skills it is important to simultaneously address problematic behaviors. FAB Strategies also offers a curriculum of practical transdisciplinary interventions for children and adolescents from 3-21 years old with complex behavioral challenges.Dr. Pagano is an occupational therapist who developed and began using FAB Strategies® 31 years ago to help children and adolescents with complex behavioral strategies for over thirty years in his work at adolescent juvenile detention, psychiatric hospital, adolescent group home, special needs, regular education and preschool classrooms. FAB Strategies® is a curriculum specifically designed to help students who have developmental, intellectual, cognitive, sensory, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, mental health and behavioral challenges. This book was developed to help occupational, speech/language, physical, and mental health therapist to work with teachers and parents to effectively address complex behavioral challenges. FAB Strategies® are evidence-based, practical strategies that have been successfully used by Dr. Pagano and many therapists, teachers and parents over the past 20 years who attend his workshops.FAB Strategies® provides a practical curriculum that can be used by therapists and teachers to help students with complex behavioral challenges. Brief, easily administered assessments and relevant student factors are described that guide intervention. Rather than using the same interventions with every student, FAB Strategies® uses clinical reasoning based on current clinical research and neurology to develop the individualized strategies needed to address complex behavioral challenges. Footnotes provide current evidence-based support and resources for quickly finding advanced information. Numerous clinical examples are provided to teach the process of applying student factors and assessment information to the development of individualized goals and interventions. Individualized behavioral goals and interventions are developed on the FAB Strategies® form during therapy and intervention sessions that can guide therapy, classroom, home and follow-up intervention.Based on over thirty years experience working with children and adolescents with complex behavioral challenges Dr. Pagano describes how to integrate motivating, evidence-based interventions for behavioral goal attainment as part of your existing therapy, teaching and home routine. This provides the consistency necessary to embed treatment in the student’s daily routine currently and in the future. Practical methods are provided for quickly coordinating diverse interventions. Read more