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Do you think that you would have a more peaceful home if you could work on decreasing some of your child's misbehavior?  In Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), we can intentionally reduce unwanted (or problematic) behavior by identifying what the current reinforcer is for the given behavior (i.e., why the behavior is occurring), teach the child a more appropriate means of getting their needs met (read more on how our children's misbehavior is communication), and then withholding the reinforcer when the unwanted behavior occurs, which eventually leads to a dying off of that behavior.