Functional Assessment for Challenging Behaviors
As the cornerstone of applied behavior analysis, functional assessment is supported by a burgeoning literature that focuses on identification of and interventions for aggressive, self-injurious, and other challenging behaviors. Although the number of rese
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Series Editor Johnny L. Matson Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Functional Assessment for Challenging Behaviors
Editor Johnny L. Matson Department of Psychology Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA, USA
ISSN 2192-922X e-ISSN 2192-9238 ISBN 978-1-4614-3036-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-3037-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3037-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012937851 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
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Introduction .................................................................................. Johnny L. Matson
2 A Brief History of Functional Analysis and Applied Behavior Analysis ......................................................................... Dennis R. Dixon, Talya Vogel, and Jonathan Tarbox 3
Nature, Prevalence, and Characteristics of Challenging Behavior ........................................................................................ Robert Didden, Peter Sturmey, Jeff Sigafoos, Russell Lang, Mark F. O’Reilly, and Giulio E. Lancioni
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Function of Challenging Behaviors ............................................ Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, Jeff Sigafoos, and Robert Didden
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Populations and Problems Evaluated with Functional Assessment .................................................................................... John M. Huete, Patricia F. Kurtz, and R. Justin Boyd
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Methods of Defining and Observing Behaviors......................... Sarah Hurwitz and Noha F. Minshawi
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Interview and Observation Methods in Functional Assessment .................................................................................... Alison M. Kozlowski and Johnny L. Matson
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Experimental Functional Analysis.............................................. Timothy R. Vollmer, Henry S. Roane, and Amanda B. Rone
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In Vivo Assessment: Issues of Real-Time Data.......................... Max Horovitz and Johnny L. Matson
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Scaling Methods of Functional Assessment ............................... Megan Sipes and Johnny L. Matson
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