Analysis: The Five Common Conditions Of A Functional Analysis

The five common conditions of a functional analysis include attention, demand, alone, play, and tangible (Jackson, 2017; Roscoe, Schlichenmeyer, & Dube, 2015). During the attention condition, the therapist ignored the participant while acting busy and delivered a reprimand contingent on problem behavior. During the attention condition, the therapist would tell the participant that he/she needs to do some work and will not be available for the next few minutes. The therapist ignoring the client is the antecedent. When the problem behavior occurs, the therapist giving the participant his/her attention is the consequence. The possible function of this condition is positive attention (social positive reinforcement). Before the demand condition, five tasks that the participant did daily were
At the beginning of the session, the therapist would tell the participant that they were going to play with some toys for a while. The therapist sat in a chair and did not prompt the participant to play with the toys in the room or make any requests or demands of the participant. No programmed consequences were applied for the problem behavior. If the participant initiated interaction or play, the therapist interacted with the participant. If the participant did not initiate interaction or play, then the therapist checked in with the participant every thirty seconds by giving the participant five to ten seconds of praise and/or attention. Before the tangible condition, items to follow problem behavior were already identified and reported on the preference assessment. Items that were highly preferred from the report were used in this condition. Two minutes before the session, the participant was given access to the preferred item and after two minutes and before the session the therapist told the participant he/she needed the item. The therapist taking the item away from the participant is the