I absolutely believe that all behaviors serve a function.

Those functions may not be absolutely

obvious right away, but if analyzed and broken down they will lead back to a definite function.
For instance I had a student we didn't understand the behaviors of so we did extensive
behavioral analyses on, if a student is throwing thing and climbing on desks when no demand
was present, you'd think it was attention they were seeking and in many cases you'd be right but
in this circumstance we deduced that, though she did crave the attention, she was also only
doing this when she perceived demands to be coming. After morning meetings students would
be given break time this is when her behaviors would happen. At this time she didn't have
demand and we assumed her behaviors were attention seeking because we were doing our
paperwork while students played. But we soon figured out that these behaviors were related to
escaping the work she perceived as imminent. When we started skipping her break time directly
following the morning meeting and started using preference assessments working towards her
reward, we started seeing a decrease in behaviors. If we would have treated these behaviors as
attention seeking she may have never stopped the behaviors because, though it looked like it
might be, those behaviors weren't attention seeking.