title: Parent-informed test-control functional analysis and treatment of problem behavior related to combined establishing operations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analog functional analysis (FA) represents the gold standard practice in the functional assessment of problem behavior. In some cases, modifications to typical FA test conditions are required to isolate the environmental variables that evoke and maintain problem behavior. The purpose of the current study was to describe the development of an individualized FA test condition that included combined establishing operations (EOs).
  
  
  METHODS
  After an inconclusive standard FA, an individualized FA was conducted based on semi-structured descriptive assessment data collected by parents in the home setting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The individualized test-control combined EO FA produced clearly differentiated results that informed a function-based treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the results of the current study and other similar lines of contemporary research on FA methodology, strategies are discussed for gathering data to inform individualized FA test conditions and derived treatments.
authors.affiliation: a Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Behavioral Psychology , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Craig W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Strohmeier
authors.affiliation: b Kennedy Krieger Institute , Columbia , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: a Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Behavioral Psychology , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Julia T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D033282:Parental Consent; D010290:Parents; D000066553:Problem Behavior
keywords: Behavioral interventions; challenging behavior; establishing operations; functional analysis