Functional Assessment Based Parent Intervention in Reducing Children’s Challenging Behaviors: Exploratory Study of Group Training

Table 2

Training session descriptions.

Session	Topic	Focus
1	Understanding young children’s social and emotional development and challenging behaviors	(i) Importance of social emotional development and why challenging behaviors occur; (ii) Ways to promote children’s social emotional development; (iii) Benefits of descriptive praise; (iv) Introduction to functional assessment
2	Functional assessment (FA) and FA-based strategies	(i) The purpose and importance of FA; (ii) FA interview and FA observation; (iii) Identifying forms and functions of children’s challenging behaviors
3	Designing FA-based parent intervention strategies	(i) Identifying suitable strategies; (ii) Formulating detailed behavior plans based on all information gathered; (iii) Creating materials to support implementation (e.g., picture cue cards, picture schedules)
4	Implementing the strategies and self-monitoring	(i) Implementation strategies; (ii) Self-monitoring