What Will You Learn?

• By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• • Describe and integrate the role of functional assessment, including Functional Analysis (FA) and Practical Functional Assessment (PFA), while understanding when each approach is most appropriate in clinical practice.
• • Differentiate and interpret isolated versus synthesized contingencies, and evaluate how multiple maintaining variables interact in naturalistic settings to influence behavior.
• • Identify and organize core behavioral processes (e.g., reinforcement, motivating operations, schedule manipulation, skill acquisition, stimulus control, response competition) as the primary mechanisms underlying effective intervention.
• • Analyse and reinterpret commonly used ABA procedures (e.g., differential reinforcement, functional communication training, noncontingent reinforcement) as applications of these underlying processes rather than function-specific techniques.
• • Develop and synthesize a clinical framework for intervention that integrates functional assessment, synthesized contingencies, and behavioral processes into a cohesive model of treatment.
• • Design and evaluate multi-component intervention strategies that promote generalization, flexibility, and durable behavior change across natural environments.