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- Title
Systematic Function-Based Intervention for Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in an Alternative Setting: Broadening the Context.
- Authors
Turton, Amina M.; Umbreit, John; Mathur, Sarup R.
- Abstract
Three adolescents (ages 14-17) with emotional and behavioral disorders displayed chronic disruptive behavior in their self-contained classrooms at a self-contained alternative school. A descriptive functional behavioral assessment was conducted for each student. Data from file review, structured interviews, and direct observations were used to identify the functions of their disruptive behaviors. Then, function-based interventions were systematically constructed for each student and implemented for an extended period (nearly 6 weeks) within the most problematic situation in their classrooms. The interventions improved each student's behavior and the effects maintained during follow-up and generalized to instruction in a nonintervention classroom. Social validity data comparing the interventions to baseline practices revealed the function-based intervention had moderately higher social validity among teachers and substantially higher social validity among students.
- Subjects
AFFECTIVE disorders; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; BEHAVIOR modification; CHILD behavior; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; SCIENTIFIC observation; RESEARCH funding; SPECIAL education; TEACHERS; BEHAVIOR disorders; INTER-observer reliability; SPECIAL education schools; EARLY medical intervention; EVALUATION; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Behavioral Disorders, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0198-7429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019874291103600203