Absenteeism & Truancy: Interventions and Universal Procedures

This comprehensive guide takes a multi-tiered approach to addressing absenteeism and truancy. Chronic absenteeism can lead to immediate and long-term problems such as low academic achievement, delinquency, substance abuse, and family dysfunction later in life.

Absenteeism and Truancy: Interventions and Universal Procedures will help you implement schoolwide procedures to minimise absenteeism and truancy. In addition, it 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
• Behaviour Contracting
• Bullying
• Check In/Check Out (CICO)
• Classroom Consultation
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Reduce Anxiety
• Cross-Age Peer Tutoring
• Repeated Reading Tutorial
• 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
• Response Cost
• Self-Management Skills
• Social Skills Training
• Structure Reinforcement Systems
• Substance Abuse

The interventions can be used by themselves or in conjunction with Functional Behaviour Assessment of Absenteeism and Truancy. The book includes a CD with all reproducible forms needed to quickly implement a group or individual intervention.