An Evaluation of the Effects of Life Space Crisis Intervention on the Challenging Behavior of Individual Students

This study assessed the effects of Life Space Crisis Interventions on the challenging behavior of four students with learning handicaps attending a special school in Germany. Students were in seventh and tenth grades and exhibited an array of challenging, disruptive classroom behaviors. After the implementation of interventions, major improvement in behavior was observed. It is hypothesized that the crisis intervention procedure fostered relationship building between teacher and student that contributed to the reduction of challenging behavior.