Jul/090
New Resource – Home and Community Social Behavior Scales
Home and Community Social Behavior Scales SET
Resource #: HCSS985W
Home and Community Social Behavior Scales
Catching “red flag” behaviors early is the key to helping children and adolescents before social-emotional difficulties become major roadblocks to academic success and personal adjustment. This program gives K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child’s social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors. Completed by a parent or other person who knows the child well, Home and Community Social Behavior Scales (HCSBS) is an ideal way to help identify children with problem behaviors, bring families into the screening and intervention process, target interventions, and measure the effectiveness of interventions over time.
Catching “red flag” behaviors early is the key to helping children and adolescents before social-emotional difficulties become major roadblocks to academic success and personal adjustment. This program gives K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child’s social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors. Completed by a parent or other person who knows the child well, Home and Community Social Behavior Scales (HCSBS) is an ideal way to help identify children with problem behaviors, bring families into the screening and intervention process, target interventions, and measure the effectiveness of interventions over time.
The comprehensive User’s Guide to HCSBS gives users all the information and guidance they need to:
• Accurately complete the 4-page rating form
• Score the rating form and record social functioning levels
• Interpret HCSBS scores and use them in Functional Behavioral Assessment
• Link behavior assessment to intervention
• Understand HCSBS technical data, including detailed information on validity and reliability
HCSBS Highlights:
• Screens both social competence and antisocial behavior, so users get the big picture of a child’s social and emotional development
• Norm-referenced and standardized-norming sample included children from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of disabilities
• Highly reliable and valid – results of studies are included in the User’s Guide
• Completed by the caregivers and other community members who know the child best
• No training and very little time required- easy to complete in minutes
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