In school settings, behavior analysts are often called in to consult on severe behavioral issues that
surpass the knowledge, experience, and training of local school personnel. Severe behavior such as
aggression to staff, SIB, and property destruction are common severe behavior referrals. The benefits of
functional assessments, functional analyses, preference assessments, treatment analyses, and
generalization analyses have been well documented in school and clinic-based research. However, to date,
a unified framework to guide behavior analysts through these best practices in school settings has not
been proposed. Further, although theoretical models for school consultation have been proposed (viz.,
Direct Behavioral Consultation), no empirical case examples of existing models have been published. The
current paper describes the Behavior Analytic Consultation to Schools (BACS) model, its application to
severe behavior problems, and provides 2 case examples of the BACS model to solve difficult severe
behavior referrals in school settings