Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 28, No. 3 (May 2003), pp. 282-298 (17 pages) Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is being used increasingly in schools as a potentially effective means of matching ...

How is an animal's internal life (i.e., its physiology and anatomy) integrated with its behavior? Sensory systems provide information from outside the animal that, when integrated, shape behavior ...

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 81-93 (13 pages) An archival study was conducted to document (a) types of challenging behavior, and (b ...

Specifically, they identified and evaluated the effectiveness of the intervention components based on the behavior change techniques taxonomy, a reliable and standardized classification of ...

Using behavioral interventions to treat children and adolescents with ADHD leads to improvement in functional outcomes in both children and parents.

"This may be the first demonstration that a behavioral intervention for autism is associated with changes in brain function as well as positive changes in behavior," Dr. Tom Insel, director of the ...

Methods: We conducted a meta-analysis of pediatric obesity behavioral interventions to examine the effect for improving weight/body composition. We reviewed 14 studies (total N = 3,363) that examined ...

The brain disease model of addiction has also fostered the development of behavioral interventions to help restore balance in brain circuitry that has been affected by drugs. 52 For example ...

Behavioral interventions come on a continuum. Why is it important to recognize this more nuanced, multi-dimensional take on nudging? Because we cannot rely solely on nudges to promote publicly ...