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“As a teaching and instructional guide, Functional Behavior Assessment, Diagnosis, and Remedy is a first-rate resource for students and young professionals new to the field of ABA or having a look to expand their knowledge and practice competencies”. -New England Psychologist “[This book provides] the practicing behavior analyst [with] a well-grounded tool in completing the process from analysis to Remedy. I highly recommend the book for all practicing behavior analysts in addition to for graduate students entering the field”. Michael F. Dorsey, Ph.D. BCBA Professor of Program in Applied Behavior Analysis, Endicott College “. . . one of the crucial detailed, practical, and useful textbooks geared for behavioral graduate students who are also concurrent practitioners . . . I learned so much in one semester with using this textbook”. Albee Ongsuco Doctoral Student, Pediatric School Psychology, East Carolina University Now in its second edition, this popular text provides a comprehensive approach to functional behavioral assessment, a function-based diagnostic classification system of the target problem, and functional behavioral Remedy. This new edition also provides a wealth of new case studies, some drawn from the authors’ own clinical experiences, along with a greater analysis of the role of establishing operations (EO) and abolishing operations (AO). A great textbook for courses in Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), this book helps students cultivate an in-depth understanding of assessing, diagnosing, and treating problem behaviors in a functional point of view. Key features: Provides a methodology for functional behavioral assessment, including indirect in addition to direct measurement techniques such as analogue and in-situ methods Includes innovative recommendations for conducting descriptive and trigger analyses and discusses methods to use them in assessment and Remedy evaluation Presents a function-based, di