Josselyn Yanisbeth Telule

Ms. Josselyn Yanisbeth Telule

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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28 November 2025 in Behavioral Sciences
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FRFreddie Pastrana Rivera
Freddie Pastrana Rivera
ZLZachary LaBrot
Zachary LaBrot
BGBrittany Denise Garza
Brittany Denise Garza
JTJosselyn Yanisbeth Telule
Josselyn Yanisbeth Telule
LRLourdes Rodriguez
Lourdes Rodriguez
AWAbigail Ann Wilkinson
Abigail Ann Wilkinson
Program-wide Positive Behavior Supports (PW-PBIS) is a data-driven multitiered model of service delivery in which young children receive increasingly intensive supports to address their social–emotional and behavioral needs. PW-PBIS implementation in early childhood education has consistently been found effective for preventing a variety of undesirable outcomes while also promoting young children’s social–emotional and behavioral functioning. However, the literature examining the PW-PBIS model has often overlooked the impact of early adversity and trauma as factors on young children’s outcomes. Emerging studies have begun proposing a trauma-informed lens be implemented in early childhood education; however, the PW-PBIS model lacks clear guidelines on how to adapt interventions and supports at each tier to be trauma-informed. Therefore, using a trauma-informed lens, this paper aims to offer evidence-guided approaches to adapt the PW-PBIS framework. Practical trauma-informed adaptations of specific interventions and supports at each PW-PBIS tier will be described. Further, a data-based case example will be presented and discussed to illustrate the utility of a trauma-informed PW-PBIS model. The goals of this paper are to advise practitioners on how PW-PBIS can be adapted to be trauma-informed while also serving as a call to action for researchers to empirically investigate this model.