Behavioral approaches to managing severe problem behaviors in children with autism spectrum and related developmental disorders: a descriptive analysis.
Severe problem behaviors such as aggression, self-injury, and property destruction can result in injury, and require specialized and expensive treatment. This article reviews outcome research published since 1995 that used behavioral techniques to decrease severe problem behaviors among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability. Many relatively simple interventions were reported to significantly reduce severe problem behavior, which offers hope for practitioners. Nonetheless, these studies also reveal a risk for injury and a need for specialized assessment and placement, careful tracking, and high-quality treatment that few agencies could likely replicate without increases in training and support.
['Doehring|Peter|P|', 'Reichow|Brian|B|', 'Palka|Tamara|T|', 'Phillips|Cara|C|', 'Hagopian|Louis|L|']
D000293:Adolescent D000374:Aggression D001521:Behavior Therapy D002648:Child D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive D006801:Humans D008607:Intellectual Disability D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology D012107:Research Design D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior D012720:Severity of Illness Index D014754:Violence
Children Autism Aggression Self-injury Outcome research Intellectual disability Applied behavior analysis Behavioral intervention