Use of treatment analysis following ambiguous functional analysis results

✍ Scribed by Stacy L. Carter

• Book ID: 101713190
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 86 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-0847
• DOI: 10.1002/bin.281

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The present study used a treatment analysis following ambiguous functional analysis results to evaluate potential treatments to reduce the SIB of a 32‐year‐old male with profound mental retardation. In addition, effective treatments were determined for increasing compliance with increasingly more complex self‐care tasks. The results indicated that a positive reinforcement procedure with extinction was useful toward reducing SIB and increasing compliance during three increasingly more complex tasks. The usefulness of treatment analysis procedures following ambiguous functional analysis results are discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.