The emphasis of this training will include four main content areas: (a) relating assessment to function, (b) selecting evidence - based interventions that align with functions of behavior, (c) linking assessment and monitoring, and (d) connecting data with the evidence - based interventions selected. (texasldcenter.org)
The primary focus in Homey's therapy is on the situation one is now facing and on the current function of behavior, rather than on the discovery of the infantile roots of the problem. (religion-online.org)
Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value). (reed.edu)