Overview: Provides a historical overview of functional assessment.Addresses a wide range of types, nature, and rates of challenging behaviors and populations for which functional assessment is applicable.Includ.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 research studies continues to grow, full-length volumes on using functional assessment to address these behaviors remain few and far betwe
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