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ABA541 Module 2 Study Questions Answer the questions below using your own words

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ABA541 Module 2 Study Questions

Answer the questions below using your own words.  There is no specific required length for each answer; however, make sure you answer each part of every question.  Please make sure to paraphrase your responses as much as possible, as you may have to resubmit the assignment if your submission has a high similarity score through TurnItIn. For more information about ABA formatting, please visit:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

For each answer, you must:

1. provide correct information and
2. cite one or more of the articles from the list of readings for this week as a reference for your answer, with page number(s) of where you found the information, using APA formatting. For example, if you found your answer on pages 271-272 in Iwata, DeLeon, and Roscoe’s 2013 article, the in-text citation would look like this: (Iwata, DeLeon, & Roscoe, 2013, pp. 271-272)

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Readings for this week:

1. Siegel and Beaulieu (2012)
2. O’Reilly (1995)
3. Zarcone et al. (2014)
4. Carr et al. (2003)

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Q1. Why is it important to rule out a medical/psychiatric cause for a challenging behavior prior to implementing an ABA treatment approach?

Q2. What are some of the biological and medical factors that can affect the occurrence of challenging behavior? Cite at least one article from this week’s readings that discusses this.

Q3. What was the purpose of the O’Reilly (1995) study?   

Q4. Briefly discuss the results of O’Reilly (1995), as well as the implications of the findings.

Q5. Summarize the six factors that impacts a clinician’s ability to apply the information that exists within the present literature on how psychotropic medications affect children with ASD.

Q6. Pick three medications and describe the target symptoms, as well as the observed significant side effects and the primary outcome(s).

Q7. Summarize the findings of the Siegel and Beaulieu (2012) literature review.

Q8. What is the purpose of Zarcone et al. (2004)? Did the results answer the research question ? Explain.

Q9. How did the FA conditions used by Zarcone et al. (2014) compare to those used by Iwata and colleagues (1994)?

Q10. If a behavior is described as having a “sudden” onset (that is, the child woke-up this morning crying and starting hitting his/her head for the first time ever), would your hypothesis be that the behavior is medically based or a learned behavior? What would you do?

Q11. Describe the assessment process used by Carr and colleagues (2003). Give information about each of the components of their assessment, including the information asked during the interview process.

Q12. How did Carr and colleagues (2003) use information regarding biological factors, as well as environmental factors, to develop intervention plans?

Q13. Briefly describe the results of Carr et al. (2003).