Chapter 1: Chapters
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- 1.1: Challenging Behaviors of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
- This chapter briefly describes the characteristics of individuals with developmental disabilities and the challenging behaviors frequently displayed by this population. Research on the behavioral principles that have been shown to account for the occurrence of challenging behaviors is summarized. The risk factors contributing to individuals’ challenging behaviors and the context in which they occur are explored to lay the groundwork for the need for effective assessment and treatment methods.
- 1.2: The Methodology of Functional Assessment
- This chapter defines functional assessment and describes why this approach is useful. It focuses on the methodology of functional assessment, including surveys, rating scales, observations, and experimental approaches to determine the function of behavior. The step-by-step process of functional assessment and ethical considerations will be described.
- 1.3: Treatment Implications Based on the Functional Assessment
- Consideration is given to the relevant factors involved in making treatment selections based on current research and function of the individual’s challenging behaviors. To put it all together, the design of treatment as reflected in behavior intervention plans is reviewed.
- 1.4: Teaching Functional Assessment Content and Process
- Identification of the relevant content material that provides the foundation for knowledge of functional assessment and the multiple resources available to access it are noted. Several instructionally effective methods for teaching knowledge and clinical decision-making are then briefly described.
- 1.5: Teaching Functional Analysis
- This chapter reviews how performance-based instruction and role play have been used to develop practitioner skills. Functional analysis, one type of functional assessment, involves an experimental manipulation of possible reasons for the challenging behavior. A brief description of past research involving how to teach functional analysis is reviewed.
- 1.6: Functional Analysis Case Training
- This chapter describes a plan to guide teaching functional analysis skills in a comprehensive manner through role play, case-based teaching, and performance-based training methods. This exercise, with content material based on actual research cases, is designed to teach the process and implementation of functional analysis for use in classrooms, in-service training, and workshops.
- 1.7: Resources
- In this chapter, the differing perspectives of the functional assessment process will be summarized. Additional examples and blank templates will be shared to help broaden the reader’s approach to functional assessment.