Bcba Task Items Segmenet 18

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G-03 Conduct a preliminary assessment of the client in order to identify the referral problem

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1. interviews

2. checklists

3. standardized tests

4. direct observations

-note the social significance, prioritize the target behaviors, defining the target behavior, and setting the criteria for behavior change

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G-01 Review records and available data at the outset of the case

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-review treatment history related to previous attempts to change potential target behavior

-records indicating previous success with related target behaviors or a history of limited impact on a behavior despite a well planned and faithfully implemented intervention are useful in selecting change targets which can be achieved within meaningful timescales

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1-03 Design and implement individualized behavioral assessment procedures

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a form of assessment that involves a full range of inquiry methods to identify probably antecedent and consequent controlling variables

1. screening and general disposition

2. defining and quantifying problems or goals

3. pinpointing the target behavior

4. monitoring progress

5. follow-up

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I-04 Design and implement the full range of functional assessment procedures

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-Functional Analysis

-Descriptive assessment

-indirect assessment

-important because they identify antecedent variables that may be altered to prevent problem behavior, reinforcement contingencies which can be altered so problem behavior no longer receives reinforcement, reinforcers for alternative replacement behavior, reduces the reliance on default technologies such as punishment

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I-06 Make recommendations regarding behaviors that must be established, maintained, increased, or decreased

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-relevance of behavior rule- target behavior should only be selected if it is likely to produce reinforcement for the client in their natural environment

-will behavior generalize to other settings and be sustainable once the behavior change program has ended?

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J-13 Select behavioral cusps as goals for intervention when appropriate

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-a behavior that has consequences beyond the change itself

-exposes the individual's repertoire to new environments, especially new reinforcers and punishers, new contingencies, new responses, new stimulus controls, and new communities of maintaining or destructive contingencies

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J-13 Criteria for behavioral cusps

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1. access to new reinforcers, contingencies, and environments

2. social validity

3. generativeness

4. competition with inappropriate responses

5. number ad the relative importance of people affected

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I-04 Functional Behavior Assessment

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-a systematic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes a problem behavior serves for a person, results are used to guide the design of an intervention for decreasing the problem behavior and increasing appropriate behavior

1. conduct indirect assessments

2. conduct a descriptive assessment

3. analyze the dat form the indirect and descriptive assessment and create hypotheses

4. test conditions the data suggest may be contributing to the behavior using a functional analysis

5. develop intervention strategies based on the results

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I-04 Descriptive Assessment

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-direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions

-advantages: information tells what happens in the individual's natural environment without interruption

-disadvantages: assessments result in false positives due to behavior maintained by intermittent reinforcement or the presence of antecedent or consequent events which are often present but have no functional relation, time required in taking data, and inaccurate data collection

-little correspondence between outcomes compared to functional analysis outcomes

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I-04 Indirect Assessment

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-structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the PB

-advantages: forms can yield valuable information and are convenient

-disadvantage: lack of research supporting the reliability of these measurements

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I-04 Functional Analysis

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-an analysis of the purposes of problem behavior, wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural routines are arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured

*best practice

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G-03 Social Significance of the behavior

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-how important is the behavior change for the client and not to others around the client

-is the behavior likely to produce reinforcement in the natural environment?

-is the skill useful?

-will it increase the individual's access to new reinforcing environments?

-will it allow more social interaction?

-is it a pivotal behavior?

-it is a behavior cusp?

-is it age-appropriate?

-if it is a behavior to be eliminated?

-what is the replacement skill?

-is the identified behavior actually problematic?

-is this the identified behavior just reports or is it real?

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G-03 Guidelines for prioritizing target behaviors

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1. pose a danger to client or others?

2. how often does it occur?

3. how longstanding is the problem?

4. will changing the behavior produce higher rates of reinforcement?

5. what is the importance related to overall independence?

6. will changing the behavior reduce negative attention?

7. will changing the behavior produce positive attention?

8. how likely is success of changing the behavior?

9. how much will it cost to change the behavior?