What differentiates Secondary Prevention from other systems of positive behavior support?
The main difference between secondary and other levels of positive behavior support is the focus on supporting students at risk for more serious problem behavior. Secondary Prevention addresses the needs of students who require more support than is available for all students (i.e., Primary Prevention) and less support than is available for individual students who need flexible, focused, personalized interventions (tertiary prevention). This means that Secondary Prevention allows teams to select features of the process (e.g., types of programs or interventions, data collection tools used, information gathered, and degree of monitoring) to provide more focused behavior support to students with behavior needs that do not require intensive, individualized plans.
