In this article, we will Define Behavioural Assessment. Discuss the Common Characteristics and Assumptions of Behavioural Assessment.
What is Behavioural Assessment?
Behavioural Assessment refers to assessing and measuring various constituents of behaviour that are indicative of why a certain behaviour occurs and what causes that behaviour. These would include overt behaviours, cognitions and feelings and their controlling variables. It could be both from within the individual and outside of the individual.
The behavioural assessment focuses on what a person does rather than on what a person has. It is also said that behavioural assessment is more an investigative activity that tries to find out the range of procedures used to understand children, adults, groups etc. This definition emphasises a hypothesis-testing problem-solving model of assessment, the goal of which is to identify appropriate intervention strategies to remediate specified behaviour problems.
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