While functional behavior assessment (FBA) has been a part of special education law and embedded in Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) since 1997, a precise definition of what actions ...

Adjusting behavior incident data entry forms to record antecedents can clue Tier 2 and Tier 3 teams into the triggers that lead to a target behavior.

Behavioral therapists credit Brian Iwata with advancing behavioral change well-beyond Skinner. Iwata created a way to think about behaviors that many now call functional analysis.

Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 28, No. 3 (May 2003), pp. 282-298 (17 pages) Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is being used increasingly in schools as a potentially effective means of matching ...

Using behavioral interventions to treat children and adolescents with ADHD leads to improvement in functional outcomes in both children and parents.

"This may be the first demonstration that a behavioral intervention for autism is associated with changes in brain function as well as positive changes in behavior," Dr. Tom Insel, director of the ...

The brain disease model of addiction has also fostered the development of behavioral interventions to help restore balance in brain circuitry that has been affected by drugs. 52 For example ...

Conclusions A behavioral weight-loss intervention significantly reduced weight over a period of 18 months in overweight and obese adults with serious mental illness.