Talk:Functional analysis (psychology)

Redirects

For reasons that are not obvious to me, someone created a redirect from Operational analysis to Functional analysis (psychology). I have changed this redirect to Operations Research. The reasons for this change are as follows:

There is no mention of operational analysis in the Functional analysis (psychology) article.
Operational analysis is the name used in the defence sphere in the UK for military operations research.
It is confusing when Operational Analysis is a redirect that leads to one place and Operational analysis is a redirect that leads somewhere else. The wikipedia software has to guess what to do when faced by operational analysis.

If operational analysis is a term related to Functional analysis (psychology), then we need a disambiguation page.--Toddy1 (talk) 10:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

I don't know how this article got written without this citation:

Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, & Richman (1994). Toward a functional analysis of self-injury. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 197-209.

But you could use it for the first citation (the one that claims that only functional analysis can reveal function - although I think the authors would qualify that statement somewhat - the function based treatment that followed will really support whether or not the functional analysis correctly revealed function or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BenjaminSchooley (talk • contribs) 17:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable organization

See my comments on Talk:Community_Reinforcement_Approach_and_Family_Training#World_Association_for_Behavior_Analysis about the World Association for Behavior Analysis.Sondra.kinsey (talk) 21:09, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccuracies

In paragraph 3 of the subheading "Applications in clinical psychology", there is a large overlap of talk of functional assessments in an article focusing on functional analysis. The following articles being used as a source also indicate that the author does not realize the difference, which creates confusion as to the validity of the claims within the section. Recommend either giving a note at the top of the article about this or removing and/or rewriting the section in question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.210.154.35 (talk) 15:02, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]