The social worker decided to use Christine’s behavioral incident reports as a way to evaluate her intervention in an A-B single subject research design. The social worker believed using the incident reports would reduce bias in the evaluation because it was a method the foster parents were accustomed to using. The social worker also chose to not tell Christine about the evaluation, because she wanted the intervention to be the only thing that influenced Christine’s behavior. The behavioral incident reports used in the single subject research design were the ones that pertained to Christine not following the house rules, making impulsive decisions, and having poor boundaries with male peers. The social worker established a baseline by examining
