—Managing agitation in nursing home patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias could be improved by augmenting Minimum Data Set data with information from electronic medical records.

Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports (PBIS) represents a dynamic framework for addressing students’ behavioural challenges within schools. It integrates a multi-tiered system that ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Physical inactivity (insufficient physical activity levels) is a serious public health issue that results in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Enthoven: Ecological momentary interventions are treatments that are provided during everyday life and within an ...

Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health ...

Positive behavior interventions can work to improve behavioral and academic outcomes for all students, research has shown. But after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, those benefits ...

In 1936, the psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed a deceptively simple idea: Behavior is a function of the person and their environment. He even gave it an equation: B = f(P, E). Your actions are shaped ...

Educators are being asked to take on more or larger classes alongside the Herculean challenges of lost instructional time and a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. Credit: Jackie ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is synonymous with supporting individuals on the autism spectrum, even though the theory on which it is grounded is purely scientific and applicable to any population, ...

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