Resources to Support Your Practice and Deepen Your Understanding
Whether you're a behavior analyst, direct support professional, researcher, or caregiver, Dr. John Guercio offers a range of tools to help you elevate your practice and promote autonomy for the individuals you serve. Explore books, training materials, and free downloads designed to make evidence-based, person-centered support more accessible.
Books by Dr. John Guercio
Assessment of Adult Core Competencies: Teaching Skills to Adults with Autism, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Severe Behavioral Challenges
The Assessment of Adult Core Competencies Curriculum for Clients with Extreme Aggression (ACCEA) assessment and treatment manual is designed to provide clinicians with a set of priorities for increasing autonomy for adults with ID through a comprehensive set of assessment tools that lead to effective evidence based interventions. This is the second addition and includes updated information on all of the domain areas as well as a new staff assessment and training domain. All new philosophical underpinnings and data collection tools are included as well.
Assessment of Adult Core Competencies: A Workbook for Assessing and Intervening with Severe Problem Behavior Scoring Instructions and Program Manual
The workbook contains the protocols and worksheets that are described in the companion manual (Assessment of Adult Core Competencies: Teaching Skills to Adults with Autism and Severe Behavioral Challenges - ACCEA) that overviews the curriculum. The workbook is divided into sections that address key components of the ACCEA and allows the clinician to detail assessment and intervention for their participants on the worksheets that are included.
Staff Training Manual: Practical Strategies For Staff Working In Adult Service Settings
The workbook is a manual that contains the protocols and worksheets for training staff that work in settings with clients with severe behavioral displays. These are all described in the companion manual Assessment of Adult Core Competencies: Teaching Skills to Adults with Autism, Intellectual, and Developmental Disabilities and Severe Behavioral Challenges (ACCEA), which overviews the curriculum. This workbook is divided into sections that address critical staff training components as they apply to working with adults exhibiting significant behavioral concerns. These sections address staff training issues, safety concerns, assessment of trauma backgrounds, and a comprehensive set of training strategies that can be employed based upon the needs identified in the manual’s assessment portion.
PADS: Protocols for Adolescents and Adults with Autism and Severe Disabilities: The Transition to Adulthood
This book contains guidance related to the transition of services from school-age persons with autism or other intellectual and developmental disabilities. There are checklists and structures for how families and caregivers who are working with transition-aged adults can best secure the services that they need to foster increased autonomy.
Behavioral Relaxation Training: Clinical Applications with Diverse Populations
"Behavioral Relaxation Training: Clinical Applications with Diverse Populations, Third Edition is a welcome update to a valuable clinical resource. It provides a rigorous behavioral conceptual and data-based methodological framework in a highly user-friendly manner, readily lending itself to practical application of the effective procedures to socially relevant behaviors. This latest edition expands the client populations and behavior challenges that are addressed, accompanied with supportive data.
“The authors candidly note the varying strength of the supporting data for various specific applications of BRT and set the occasion for continuing research with the procedures. A really nice touch is the provision for each chapter of items from the Behavior Analyst Certification Board Task List (5th edition) that correspond to the concepts and procedures addressed in it. Further, linking the rationale and procedures for BRT to basic behavioral research as well as to work done in non-behavior analytic framework adds to this book’s value. As a person who has been using BRT in my clinical work for years, I welcome this expanded presentation of work in the area."
—Dr. Gordon Bourland, Trinity Behavioral Services, Fort Worth, TX
Downloadable Resources
Support your staff, team, or students with ready-to-use, research-informed tools: