Behavior Assessment System for Children | Third Edition

Audience: This session is designed to support BASC-3 users in optimizing their use of the tool to support students’ well-being.

Course description: This 3-hour learning track addresses how a well-being focus using the BASC–3 can be applied in our schools to promote student social/emotional development and address behavioral and mental health issues. This session focuses on a strengths-based approach to screening, assessment, and intervention planning in order to identify behavioral components of student well-being and to support their development. Price includes up to 40 people per session.

Learning objectives: As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:

Part 1

1. Determine how supporting social, emotional, and behavioral development can promote student well-being
2. Learn how behavioral assessments can be used in this process

Part 2

1. Understand the BASC–3 model, the Parent and Teacher Rating Scales, and the Self-Report of Personality
2. Apply these to the process of identifying social, emotional, and behavioral strengths

Part 3

1. Demonstrate how results and reports can be interpreted and used to build a strength-based profile for students
2. Implement BASC–3 social, emotional, and behavioral instruction and supports in the process of proactively developing well-being and a strength-based response to interventions for mental health and behavioral challenges