146, CODE, Riffel, Functional Behavior Analysis

Mental Health Training- Functional Behavior Analysis

Tertiary Level – What is the Difference Between a Functional Behavior Assessment and Functional Behavior Analysis?

Dr. Riffel will share the difference between assessment and analysis.  One is collecting data in the environment and one is manipulating the environment to collect the data.  Dr. Riffel will take participants through a real case of a child in her clinic who had eight years of behaviors that had been fed by the school district.  The student had autism, intellectual disabilities, bipolar condition, and possible schizophrenia. He was also non-verbal.  Using Iwata’s Four Conditions, she tested the function of this student’s behaviors by manipulating the environment.  A determination was made and a multi-modal plan was put in place. Dr. Riffel will share the results immediate and 10 years into the future.

Session One:  What is a functional behavior analysis?

1.       Dr. Riffel will share the difference between a functional behavior assessment and a functional behavior analysis.  She will share why we sometimes need to do the functional analysis.

Session Two: Real Student

2.       Dr. Riffel will share the background story on a real student who had been at the same center since he was three years of age.  He had one basic behavior that escalated into him biting staff daily.  The school had the same response for eight years.  This response was feeding the behavior.

3.       Dr. Riffel will share what they did to prepare for his arrival in the clinic.  Why is this important if you are not running a clinic?  From this story you will learn how you can do your own analysis in the classroom and determine the function of the behavior.

4.       Using Iwata’s Four Conditions, Dr. Riffel and her staff manipulated the environment to determine the function of the behavior.

5.       This data observation was paired with anecdotal notes, surveys, and interviews with the mother.

6.       A multi-modal plan was built, and the interventions began.

7.       The plan was tweaked as needed.

8.       Intervention data were collected

9.       Follow-up data were collected

10.   Dr. Riffel will share the results immediate and ten years in the future

Session Three: Your Students

1.       Using Dr. Riffel’s formula, she will help you take this information and apply it to students in your own setting.  Even though you are not a clinic, how can you rearrange the environment to elicit results? 

There will be an out of the HGRESA area fee of $50.