A clinician asks a child to sit at a desk in a simulated classroom situation to complete a difficult task.The clinician is using this technique to discover the reasons the child has been engaging in self-hitting (self-injurious) behaviour.In behavioural assessment terms, what type of behaviour has the self-hitting been identified as?

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The self-hitting behaviour has been identified as the target behaviour, which is the behaviour that the clinician is trying to address and understand the reasons for. The other options (measurable behaviour, resultant behaviour, observable behaviour) are all important aspects of behavioural assessment, but they do not specifically apply to the identification of the self-hitting behaviour as the target behaviour.

A Clinician Asks a Child to Sit at a Desk