H-2 Identify potential interventions based on assessment results and the best available scientific evidence.

• BCBAs make recommendations for interventions regarding target behaviors after conducting FBAs that aim to either increase, decrease, establish, and maintain the target behaviors.
• Interventions should always provide a functionally equivalent replacement behavior to the targeted behavior.
• Once a client learns how to complete a skill successfully/masters a skill, it must be programmed for maintenance in the natural environment to promote generalization fo the skill in novel and natural conditions. THis is important for mastering the skill and for its perseverance through time
• Medical onsiderations should always be the first information collected when conducting an intake on a new client. If there is ever an indication that a medical condition could be linked to a beahvior, BCBAs should recommend to the client's caregivers to get the client medically evaluated for underlying medical problems. 
• Reinforcement procedures should always be utilized first before punishment is deemed necessary. 
• Incorporating reinforcement for replacement behaviors is always the most effective use of extinction procedure.
• Interventions should always be the least intrusive and become more intrusive if deemed necessary.
• Important consideration when using a combination of punishment and reinforcement procesures: Punishment often leads to undesirable emotional responses and a systematic plan for fading should always be considered from the onset of planning for intervention. Further, reinforcement procedures should always be implemented simultaneously with punishment procedures and should include the use of high-quality reinforcers and dense schedules of reinforcment for effective intervention. 
• Important consideration when using a combination of extinction and reinforcement procesures: Extinction procedures initially result in an increase in behaviors, which may be a safety concern. Extinction bursts, reinforcement history and behavior-maintaining schedules of reinforcement are all majot considerations that can affect the success of extinction and reinforcement procedures. 
• When considering interventions, BCBAs should always make sure to provide a functionally equivalent replacement behavior to the targeted behavior and determine if the intervention chosen will be effective in changing the behavior selected. 
• Preference Assessments determine POSSIBLE stimuli that could be reinforcing to the client. A Reinforcer Assessment would determine if the stimuli is reinforcing. 
• Results from Extinction occur more rapidly when the behavior was previoulsy maintained on a continuous schedule of reinforcement.
• Punishment should always be paired with reinforcement. If there is a problem behavior being punished, there should always be a replacement behavior being reinforced. This helps satisfy the MO for the function of behavior maintaining the problem bx. This also prevents the occurrence of behavioral contrast in other conditons- so the problem bx doesn't increase in other instances. 
• All target behaviors selected for intervention should be socially significant for the particular client to increase the quality of life for the learner.
• Reinforcement used in combination with extinction is more effective because a target behavior is decreaing and simultaneously teaching an appropriate replacement behavior. 
• A treatment will likely be more effective if the treatment focuses on increasing alternative behaviors while eliminating the unwanted behavior.