2 assignments

FBA

1. A. Family Factors

B. Personal Factors

C. School Factors

D. Antecedent

E. Problem Behavior (See Target Behavior below)

F. Function of the Behavior (maintaining consequences)

BIP

2. A. Target Behavior

B. Strategies to Prevent Target Behavior

C. Strategies to Deal with Problem Behavior (when it Recurs)

Format to use is the above outline with a few words after each item to indicate your knowledge. Do not repeat information in any of the FBA categories; each is separate.

1.A. Identify family issues or characteristics that can be related to the unwanted behavior. List ONLY family issues.

1.B. Identify any things about the subject themselves that may be relevant to the situation. List ONLY things about the subject/student.

1.C.1 Identify only things about the school or school staff. List ONLY things about the school here that may have contributed to the situation.

1.D. Antecedent refers to ONLY the most immediate trigger. Even though A-C may also contain relevant trigger information, do not repeat them here. Keep each section A – F separated and not overlapping.

1.F. This is not punishment you do to a child as a result of misbehavior! It is not what others do as a result of the problem behavior. This is the “payoff for the child.” It is what the child gets to obtain, avoid, and/or escape from as a result of the target behavior. So, you should not make statements about others here; instead, you should make a statement her about the payoff for the child/subject.

1.E and 2.A. (Same as Problem Behavior above.) Remember the specified behavior must be observable and so clearly stated that everyone can agree when it did or did not happen. So, “aggression” for example would not be a specific behavior. If aggression (problem behavior)can take numerous different forms, how do you know if it happened or WHICH of those types of aggression you mean??? It has to be the actual observed behavior: HE PUNCHED A BOY ON THE PLAYGROUND. Everyone can look at that and agree whether or not it happened. Some may consider a dirty look or something less than punching as forms of aggression.

2.B. Each factor mentioned in the FBA (l.A-F) should be addressed in this section. You must address every one of these things and say what will be done by whom and by when. You must be specific about the action to be taken and the scheduled timeline for it.

You need to specify who will do what and when it should be completed by. So, instead of saying "adults being aware of the situation" – say how will you accomplish this? Who will do it and how will they do it and when should it be completed? Do not list vague things that could mean different things to different people. Be very specific and behavioral.

2.C. If 2B addresses deficit areas to prevent the behavior from happening, this section is different.

There are some things you can say here (from the book) about how to respond when the behavior does occur. BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. In addition to those things (which should not have been included in the section before it) you need to review the BIP (from section 2.B) to be sure it was fully carried out. (Often it was not carried out due to lack of being specific about who does what and when to do it.) So, you must REVIEW the prevention strategies to see that they were completed and determine from the people who did those steps what else might be needed to obtain more success with the plan. You can also do another FBA on the recurrence of the behavior to see if more information can be gathered there (from the new FBA) - as well as to tell if prevention steps were even helpful.

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