Overview
- Examines functional behavior assessment (FBA) techniques (e.g., interviewing, scaling, experimental, and in vivo methods)
- Describes interview and observation methods in functional behavior assessment
- Addresses treatments for vulnerable populations and challenging behaviors
- Explores informed consent and legal and ethical considerations related to treatment of individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assessment
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Anxiety, depression and functional assessment
- Autism and functional behavior assessment (FBA)
- Challenging behaviors and FBA
- Developmental disabilities and FBA
- Disabilities, environment, and FBA
- Ethics, legal issues and functional assessment
- Experimental functional analysis and FBA
- FBA, challenging behaviors, and treatments
- Gender, age, and FBA
- Informed consent and FBA
- Intellectual disabilities and FBA
- Interventions and functional assessment
- Interviewing techniques and FBA
- Mental health disorders and FBA
- Nature and prevalence of challenging behavior
- Observation and functional assessment
- Phobias and functional behavioral assessment
- Report writing and FBA
- Scaling methods and functional assessment
- Vulnerable populations and FBA
About this book
This Second Edition updates and expands on the original editorial content and coverage, including new chapters on definitions and rationale, a general overview, research on mental health disorders, report writing, the role of treatment planning, and treatment associated with mental health disorders. The Second Edition builds on the knowledge base by providing the most current information on all aspects of each topic. This unique volume addresses basic questions in salient detail, from types and rates of challenging behaviors to populations that warrant functional assessment. In addition, it examines typical assessment techniques, including interview, scaling, experimental, and in vivo methods. The use of functional assessment in treatment planning – and in combination with other interventions – is covered in depth. Given the vulnerable populations and challenging behaviors (e.g., individuals with autism, intellectual disabilities, mental health issues), the book provides detailed coverage of informed consent as well as legal and ethical issues.
Key areas of coverage include:
- The history of behavior analysis and functional assessment.
- The nature, prevalence, and characteristics of challenging behaviors.
- Interview and observation methods in functional assessment and analysis.
- Experimental functional analysis for challenging behaviors.
- Treatment methods commonly used with functional assessment.
- Using functional assessment in treatment planning.
Functional Assessment for Challenging Behaviors, Second Edition, is an essential updated resource for researchers, clinicians and other practitioners, and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, pediatric psychiatry and medicine, social work, rehabilitation, developmental psychology as well as other interrelated disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology at LSU. He has served as major professor for 71 Ph.D.’s during a 42-year career and has more than 850 publications, including 48 books. He is founding editor of the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Assessment for Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Disorders
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66270-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66269-1Published: 27 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66272-1Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66270-7Published: 26 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 428
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work