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Title: Functional Analysis of Precurrent Contingencies Between Mands and Destructive Behavior.
Author : The Behavior Analyst Today
Release Date : January 22, 2001
Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 206 KB

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Functional analysis methods have greatly enhanced our ability to assess, understand, and treat problem behavior. However, standard functional analysis methods that assess whether problem behavior is maintained by social positive reinforcement (e.g., attention, tangible items), social negative reinforcement (e.g., escape from demands), and automatic reinforcement (e.g., sensory reinforcement, pain reduction) can produce inconclusive results and fail to identify idiosyncratic functions in up to 40% of cases. One such idiosyncratic function involves a precurrent contingency between destructive behavior and a child's mands (usually spoken requests). In this paper, I discuss this unique function of destructive behavior and a specific functional analysis method my colleagues and I have developed to analyze its precurrent relation to a child's mands. We hypothesize that destructive behavior may become a precurrent response for a child's mands because the two responses produce reinforcement more accurately and consistently than either or both responses could if they were operating on the environment independent of one another. **********