How detailed should Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) be?

How detailed should VIPs be? How involved should caretakers or parents be in creating the behavior plan? So that's a great question. So I'm at the end of the thinking we want to implement an intervention. Right we want a couple of things that we want to think about. We develop a plan that have to be able to be implemented by the people that are in the lives of the child. So, like, if we are going to design behavior intervention plan, that has a lot of sophisticated language in it, lots of different parts, it's going to be very difficult to implement correctly. I also am very interested in knowing what works. So sometimes the behavior plans, we think that we're protected, right. If we throw every possible intervention that we know and their behavior plan and the problem behavior. And so what I like to do is, one, I like to look, make sure that first my functional behavior assessment is as a core part of that. So I want to look at what is the function of problem behavior. And then directly link those components in the behavior intervention plan to that function. And so if there's an item on there, I'm always going to ask, why is this included? How does this relate to the functional assessment? That's one thing. And will also help you maybe trim down some of those procedures. So behavior intervention plan should have enough procedures. So it should have something that in general should have something that involves something that teaches new skills to replace problem behavior. It should probably also had some component that will reduce the motivations. Or in our series, we talked a lot about. And it seems right antecedent type interventions. And so things that might reduce the motivations and sort of environmental arrangements that will make it less likely for problem behavior to happen. I'd like to start with a few core procedures, then. If something's not working, I know exactly what intervention. I need to tweak versus having a whole laundry list. So I don't think there's a necessarily right answer. But I do think that a behavior intervention plan at its minimum should at least have procedures, a few procedures that are directly related to the functional says avoid throwing in every Social Story is going to all these different things that are in there that probably won't get implemented anyway. Have the time. Look at exactly what the problem is, why the individuals engage the problem behavior, what procedure you're going to use to get them there a different way. And then the other part of this question is, how involved should caretakers and parents be in creating behavior intervention plans? Realistically, I think they should always be involved. They should have a rich understanding, if you're right, a behavior intervention plan. I think that you should write it with parents understanding it mine. So, again, if you're going to use a differential reinforcement of alternative behavior procedure, that's not what you call it. Right maybe you describe it so that when a child does this, we're going to do this. And what a child does this. We're going to do this. Certainly, if you want to tag that this is what this is or this is the official title, the right of your parents. Because if parents can understand it, especially those that may not have a lot of experience, a behavior analysis or teaching them, probably the rest of your team is going to understand it. I also think it's extremely important. So there are some cases, for instance, where it's very hard to get a hold of parents. And we still have some severe, maybe some very dangerous behavior in the classroom. We go through our district protocols to try to contact the parents as much as possible. But once you reached out to them, you had the right to write the behavior plan. Don't stop reaching out to them. Keep trying to get them involved in that plan because you are going to know and understand things about their child's behavior that you may miss or things within the plan that may be really problematic. And so, again, I think that I guess to summarize, I think they should be involved, especially, again, we keep adding new things on. If you're going to add. If you have any sort of procedures that involve any sort of restrictive procedures, any sort of removal from academic past, any of those things, I definitely parents need to be in place. They need to know what's happening with their child, especially if there's any sort of risk involved. The larger question, sorry, we're just getting warmed up. I thought it was great. Those are that's an important question. So thank you for asking that.