Abstract:A percentage of individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities engage in severe, dangerous challenging behaviors. Two common approaches for intervening for these behaviors are function-based interventions (FBI), which have been effective at reducing such behaviors, and crisis intervention, which has been shown to increase staff skills for managing dangerous situations. These two methods have different theoretical foundations, and as such the two approaches often recommend competing strategies for a given challenging behavior. Therefore, practitioners may feel they need to choose between the two approaches, selecting either FBI or crisis intervention. This study examined a way to blend the strengths of two approaches into a synthesized model referred to as function-based crisis intervention (FBCI). Using a delayed multiple-probe design, results showed that FBCI reduced the severe challenging behavior of three students with autism. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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基于功能的危机干预对自闭症学生严重挑战行为的影响

摘要：一部分患有自闭症和其他发育障碍的人会从事严重、危险的挑战性行为。干预这些行为的两种常见方法是基于功能的干预 (FBI)，它已有效减少此类行为，以及危机干预，后者已被证明可以提高员工管理危险情况的技能。这两种方法具有不同的理论基础，因此这两种方法通常会针对给定的挑战性行为推荐竞争策略。因此，从业者可能会觉得他们需要在两种方法之间做出选择，要么选择 FBI，要么选择危机干预。这项研究检验了一种将两种方法的优势融合到一个称为基于功能的危机干预 (FBCI) 的综合模型中的方法。使用延迟多探针设计，结果表明 FBCI 减少了三名自闭症学生的严重挑战行为。讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。