Functional behavioral assessment: Principles, procedures, and future directions

School Psychology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 156-172

  Gresham, Frank M ^a   Watson, T Steuart ^b   Skinner, Christopher H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside ^*

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