FBA and BIP Templates: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan

A functional behavior assessment (FBA) finds out why a behavior happens: it gathers records, interviews and direct observation, defines the behavior, and ends with a hypothesis about its function, such as attention, escape, access to items or automatic reinforcement. A behavior intervention plan (BIP) turns that hypothesis into a plan: replacement behaviors to teach, antecedent changes, reinforcement and consequence strategies, a crisis plan and how progress will be measured.

Our FBA template walks through each part in order: learner information and team, reason for referral, record review, indirect assessment, direct observation (ABC, scatterplot, setting), operational definitions, baseline, setting events and antecedents, hypothesis statements, the competing behavior pathway, an optional functional analysis summary, and recommendations. The BIP picks up from there and ends with review dates, criteria for success and team consent.

Every section has grey guidance text telling you what to write, so a newer BCBA or a school team gets a consistent, defensible document. Rating scales are left as blanks for the tool you use; we do not reproduce copyrighted assessment items.