● identifies the client

Scenario: As a practicing independent Behavior Analyst, you have received an email from a staff member representing a provider of education and/or human services requesting your services. Specifically, this staff member has asked you to meet with other staff and/or administrators to develop a behavior intervention plan for a third-grade student at a local elementary school. This student is demonstrating significant problem behaviors in the form of disruptive behaviors in his classroom and in other settings within the school (lunch, recess, specials, etc.). Disruptive behaviors have been termed “aggressive” and “non-compliant” by school staff.
Describe the specific purposes of a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and discuss why conducting the FBA prior to the development of a behavior intervention plan is important.
Describe, in specific detail, how antecedent stimuli and conditions could be potentially important for the assessment of the target behaviors in the scenario. Please include a discussion of the influence of Discriminative Stimuli and Motivating Operations in triggering the target behaviors.
Describe, in specific detail, how Consequence stimuli and conditions could be potentially important for the assessment of the target behaviors. Be sure to indicate the influences of Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, and Automatic Reinforcement in maintaining the target behaviors.
Describe three (3) Indirect Functional Assessment procedures that you may be implemented during the process of the Functional Behavioral Assessment. Be sure to specify how they will be used and the purpose of each tool.
Describe three (3) Direct Descriptive Assessment procedures you may be implemented during the process of the Functional Behavioral Assessment. Be sure to specify how they will be used and the purpose of each tool.
Describe, in specific detail, at least two (2) ethical obligations and/or concerns that would be necessary to address within the current case scenario. (You may use either, or both, APA and BACB guidelines as reference).
1. Functional Behavior Assessment – Referral
● Specifies the referral problem.
● Identifies the type of provider that has requested services
● Identifies the client
● Provides the operational definition of the problem behavior(s).
2. Functional Behavior Assessment – Purpose
● Describes the specific purposes of an FBA to the members of the planning meeting.
● Identifies 2 ethical concerns that would need to be addressed when conducting the assessment as they apply to this scenario.
3. Indirect Functional Assessment Procedures
● Describes three (3) Indirect Functional Assessment procedures.
● Specifies how they will be used.
● Specifies the purpose of each.
4. Direct Descriptive Assessment Procedures
● Describes three (3) Direct Descriptive Assessment procedures.
● Specifies how they will be used.
● Specifies what the purpose of each tool is.
Be sure to discuss antecedent stimuli and consequence stimuli based on the function (purpose) that the target (problem) behavior serves and not the choice of intervention. The goal is to identify variables that are related to the occurrence of the problem behavior,