Correlational analysis of challenging behaviours

British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 28-31

  Whitaker, Simon ^a   Hirst, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Greenhead Resource Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenging behaviour; Correlational analysis; Functional analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011512821     PISSN: 13544187     EISSN: 14683156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3156.2002.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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