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- Title
BRIEF (TEST-CONTROL) FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND TREATMENT EVALUATION OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR EVOKED BY DIVIDED ATTENTION.
- Authors
Strohmeier, Craig; Pace, Gary M.; Luiselli, James K.
- Abstract
We measured the effects of divided attention on the aggressive behavior of a 20-year-old man within a test-control functional analysis (FA; Iwata, B. A., Duncan, B. A., Zarcone, J. R., Lerman, D. C., & Shore, B. A. (1994). A sequential, test-control methodology for conducting functional analyses of self-injurious behavior. Behavior Modification, 18, 289-306). The FA confirmed that divided attention was associated with high-frequency aggression and aggression-contingent attention from a familiar and preferred staff person. A subsequent treatment evaluation confirmed that aggression decreased when the man was able to request attention from the staff person under the divided attention condition. We discuss the clinical utility of a divided attention and test-control methodology when conducting a FA of serious problem behavior within applied settings Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
FUNCTIONAL assessment; AGGRESSION (Psychology); ATTENTION; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; INTER-observer reliability; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 4, p331
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1394