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Functional Analyses of Challenging Behaviours of Two People with Intellectual Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

R. Don Tustin
R. Don Tustin*
Affiliation:
Minda Incorporated
*
PO Box 5 Brighton, Adelaide 5048, SA, Australia
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Abstract

Carers observed problem behaviours of two people with intellectual disability in natural settings. Data recorded on Antecedent-Behaviour-Consequence (A-B-C) charts were analysed quantitatively by calculating the relative likelihoods of each target behaviour occurring in different situations. Functional analyses were conducted, and individualised interventions were based on these. In one case, a client behaved differently in different situations. Interventions were introduced to teach the client to emit a different prosocial behaviour in each situation. The second client behaved similarly in two situations, suggesting that the behaviours were functionally equivalent for the client. The behaviours of both clients were interpreted as attention seeking behaviours as both antecedents and consequences involved the provision of attention by carers. However different interventions were used in the two cases, and were effective in reducing target behaviours both immediately and in follow-ups.

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Research Article
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Behaviour Change , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 39 - 46
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1993

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