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ABC analysis breaks down behaviors into antecedents (triggers), behaviors, and consequences to understand why people act in certain ways from their perspective. It identifies triggers for behaviors, and what happens after to encourage repetition. Behaviors can be changed by altering antecedents or consequences, focusing on encouraging new behaviors that provide immediate, certain, and positive consequences rather than just stopping unwanted behaviors. This requires understanding others' perceptions and motivations through conversation rather than just observation.

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ABC Analysis

ABC analysis breaks down behaviors into antecedents (triggers), behaviors, and consequences to understand why people act in certain ways from their perspective. It identifies triggers for behaviors, and what happens after to encourage repetition. Behaviors can be changed by altering antecedents or consequences, focusing on encouraging new behaviors that provide immediate, certain, and positive consequences rather than just stopping unwanted behaviors. This requires understanding others' perceptions and motivations through conversation rather than just observation.

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ABC Analysis

______________________________________________________________________ The first step towards changing behaviour is to understand why people are currently behaving as they are. ABC analysis helps you understand behaviour from the other persons perspective by breaking the events down into antecedents, behaviours and consequences. Antecedents Something that comes before a behaviour; that sets the stage for the behaviour to occur. Eg information, skills, knowledge, training, expectations, rules, procedures Behaviours What the person does Consequences What happens to the person as a result of the behaviour. Certain types of consequence influence behaviour more than others.

Changing behaviour Identify when the behaviour occurs and what triggers it. Establish what happens after the behaviour that encourages its repetition in similar circumstances. Consider how to alter the antecedents or the consequences to create change. There are different types of consequences: Positive or negative, from the perspective of the other person. Immediate or future Certain or uncertain that consequences will occur

Positive, immediate and certain consequences have the most power to produce repeated behaviours. When attempting to change behaviours, there will usually be more success when new behaviours are encouraged to replace the undesirable ones, rather than just trying to stop the behaviours that arent wanted. Try to find ways of making the desirable behaviour provide immediate, certain and positive consequences. Ensure that the undesirable behaviours do not have positive consequences from the other persons perspective. This may require having a conversation with them to understand their perceptions and motivations, rather than simply observing the situation as important details may not be evident from the observers perspective.

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