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Comments on functional analysis procedures for school-based behavior problems
1Department of Educational Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Functional analysis procedures were developed in the 1980s in an effort to determine whether clinicians could identify the function of behavior problems like self-injury and aggression. More recently, several groups of researchers have been attempting to extend that procedure to classroom environments. The following commentary reflects my viewpoint of this transition.