Background Emotional distress has received less attention as an explanatory factor for self-
injury in people with intellectual disabilities, with research and practice primarily focusing on …

Individuals with disabilities may exhibit dangerous behavior such as physical aggression
and self-injury. Determining the environmental variables maintaining dangerous behavior …

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often engage in challenging behavior that
requires individualized intervention to remediate. However, access to high-quality services …

Individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) frequently
exhibit self-injurious behavior (SIB). Previous research has examined the published …

Challenging behavior tends to increase in levels during adolescence for individuals with
developmental disabilities (DD). If not addressed, this can lead to negative post-school …

Operational definitions have a significant history in applied behavior analysis. The practice's
importance stems from the role operational definitions play in detecting an event, human …

It is common practice in research on the treatment of problem behavior to compare levels of
targeted behaviors during treatment to levels when treatment is not in place. Some …

This systematic literature review synthesizes the single-case research on Prevent-Teach-
Reinforce (PTR). The purpose of the review was to evaluate the methodological quality …

Challenging behaviors are prevalent among adults with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDD). In this review, we used the What Works Clearinghouse Standards (WWC) …

Automatically maintained self-injurious behavior (SIB) is one of the most challenging
maladaptive behaviors to treat and often requires intensive behavioral treatments …