Applications of the bo-functional assessment in the management of self-injurious behavior

As part of the development of the various behavioral functional analysis models (Sturmey, 1996; Ricci & Sturmey, 2017), different aspects were taken into consideration within the relationship between behavior and context. The latter is intended as an environment external to the person who manifests the behavior in accordance with the assumptions of the science of human behavior in the Skinnerian sense. The Bio-Functional Assessment (BFA) is part of that tradition of studies and research that attempted to resort to the Skinnerian paradigm by referring, however, to an internal environment of the individual, represented by the so-called psychophysiological repertory.