Content Area Editor:
Definition:
This section contains a wide range of behavior that may occur during both typical and atypical human development.
General Practice Guidelines:
1. As in all cases a medical etiology should be ruled out prior to beginning behavioral treatment interventions.
2. All guidelines in this area will focus primarily on building adaptive skills and behavior as a means of remediating the problem behavior. Only after such efforts have proven unsuccessful should primarily reductive procedures be considered.