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Challenging Behaviours and Severe Learning Disabilities: Recent Developments in Behavioural Analysis and Intervention

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Eric Emerson
Eric Emerson
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University of Manchester
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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the gradual emergence of a technology of nonaversive behavioural support for people with severe learning disabilities and seriously challenging behaviours. Three key aspects of these developments are reviewed, including: the functional perspective to analysis and intervention; the incorporation of the analysis and modification of setting events into behavioural practice; and the use of experimental techniques to conduct functional analyses of the contextual control of challenging behaviours. Attention is drawn to the practical implications and limitations of these developments.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 171 - 198
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1993

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