Understanding Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Understanding Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
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Understanding Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) is a structured procedure used to collect data and analyze a person's behavior to understand its reason or function, with the goal of developing an effective behavior management strategy. A comprehensive Functional Behavior Assessment includes several steps. The first step of an FBA is defining the problem behavior. This step involves clearly outlining the problematic behavior to be assessed and determining the specific conditions under which it occurs (Shepley et al., 2022). The second step is collecting data on the behavior's antecedents, actual behavior, and consequences. Collecting data involves observing and recording the behavior and identifying and recording events and conditions that occur immediately before and after the behavior.
The third step is analyzing the data. This step involves reviewing the collected data and searching for patterns in the behavior's initial behavioral routine and consequences in determining what function the beh...