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| 4 purposes of behavioural assessmenet |
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o Identity and describe target behaviour
o Identify possible causes of the behaviour
o Select appropriate treatment strategy
o Evaluation of treatment outcome |
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| 4 phases of behaviour bodification programs |
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screening or intake
baseline
treatment
follow-up |
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Collect basic information
Determine appropriateness of services
Discuss rules and procedures with clients
Crisis screening |
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| Determine the level of target behaviour prior to treatment intervention |
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| different assessment procedures for collecting baseline info |
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indirect: interviews, questionnaires, role-playing, info from other professionals, client self-monitoring
direct: direct observation of behaviour
experimental: examine factors that control and maintain problem behaviour
computer-assisted |
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Design treatment program
Apply the program
Measure and monitor behaviour regularly |
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| Determine whether improvements are maintained |
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| Direct Behavioural assessment; characteristics |
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| - Topography, amount, intensity, stimulus control, latency, quality |
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o The specific movements involved in a particular response
o Need specific guidelines(e.g. pictures, descriptions) to help record aspects of topography |
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o Frequency
Number of instances in a period of time (i.e. rate)
o Duration
How long a behaviour lasts
Relative duration – length of time a behaviour occurs within a specific period |
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o The force of a response (e.g. volume, speed)
o May use instruments to measure force |
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| o Under which conditions does a behaviour occur |
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| o Amount of time between a stimulus and the response |
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o How well a behaviour is performed
o A refinement of one or more of the other characteristics (e.g. shorter latency, stronger intensity, lower frequency) |
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o Recording every instance in a specific time period
o Only practical or feasible for certain types of behaviours |
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| o Record instances of a behaviour during short intervals of equal duration, within an observation period |
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| partial interval recording |
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| target behaviour is recorded a maximum of once per interval |
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| target behaviour is only recorded if it occurs throughout the entire interval |
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| o Behaviour is recorded as occurring or not, during very brief intervals that are separated by much longer periods of time |
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- Response definition: overly vague
- Characteristics of observational situation make accurate observation challenging
- Poor training of observers
- Poorly designed recording materials (e.g data sheets) or procedures |
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| general goal of a behaviour modification research projection |
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| o To demonstrate convincingly that it is the treatment, rather than some uncontrolled variables, that was responsible for the change in the target behaviour |
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| - Conduct more than one AB design concurrently with treatments beginning at different times |
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| changing criterion designs |
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| - Changing the criterion for success over time and look for a relationship between criteria changes and behaviour change |
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| alternating treatment designs |
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- Compare the effects of 2 or more treatment conditions on a single behaviour of an individual
o Treatment conditions applied at alternating times, one condition per session
o Also known as multi element design |
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| greater likelihood that a treatment had an effect |
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o the greater the number of times that results are replicated
o the fewer the overlapping data points between baseline and treatment phases
o the sooner the effect is observed following the introduction of treatment
o the larger the effect is in comparison to baseline
o the more precisely the treatment procedures are specified
o the more reliable the response measures
o the more consistent the findings are with the existing data and accepted behavioural theory |
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