Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC)

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC) is a family-school partnership intervention designed to address children's problem behaviors across home and school settings. CBC involves parents and teachers working together through a structured problem-solving process guided by a consultant. The intervention includes three to four collaborative meetings over approximately eight weeks, during which parents and teachers identify target behaviors, analyze their function, develop and implement evidence-based behavioral intervention plans across both home and school, and evaluate progress. CBC emphasizes strengths-based approaches, shared goals, bi-directional communication, perspective-taking, skill building, and relationship building between parents and teachers. The intervention targets elementary-aged children (kindergarten through third grade) with disruptive behaviors such as noncompliance, aggressiveness, and tantrums. Implementation includes consultant-led meetings with individual parent-teacher pairs, home visits to support parents' plan implementation, and the use of empirically-based behavioral strategies including positive reinforcement, environmental structuring, skills training, and reductive techniques.