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Functional assessment and function‐based treatment delivered via telehealth: A brief summary
Author(s) -
Schieltz Kelly M.,
Wacker David P.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.742
Subject(s) - telehealth , coaching , context (archaeology) , function (biology) , applied behavior analysis , psychology , service (business) , functional analysis , health care , telemedicine , applied psychology , autism , psychotherapist , psychiatry , business , political science , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , marketing , evolutionary biology , gene , law , biology
As the world navigates the COVID‐19 health crisis, behavior analysts are considering how best to support families while maintaining services and ensuring the health and safety of everyone involved. Telehealth is one service delivery option that provides families with access to care in their own communities and homes. In this article, we provide a brief summary of the telehealth literature in applied behavior analysis that provided coaching and training to families for individuals who displayed challenging behavior. These studies targeted functional assessment and function‐based treatment for challenging behavior. We briefly summarize what is known relative to the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior via telehealth, place these results within a descriptive context of the decisions made by the research team at the University of Iowa, and discuss what we, as behavior analysts, should consider next to advance our understanding and practice of telehealth.