title: Comments on functional analysis procedures for school-based behavior problems.
abstract: Functional analysis procedures were developed in the 1980s in an effort to determine whether clinicians could identify the function of behavior problems like self-injury and aggression. More recently, several groups of researchers have been attempting to extend that procedure to classroom environments. The following commentary reflects my viewpoint of this transition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Repp
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology