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| stimulus conditions, or conditions that lead up to the behavior of interest. |
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| an assessment approach that focuses on the interactions between situations and behaviors for the purpose of effecting behavioral change. |
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| Interviews conducted for the purpose of identifying a problem behavior, the situational factors that maintain the behavior, and consequences that result from the behavior. |
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| role-playing. the term behavioral rehearsal is usually used in cases where the patient is trying to develop a new response pattern. |
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| cognitive-behavioral assessment |
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| An assessment approach recognizing that the person's thoughts or cognitions play an important role in behavior. |
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| cognitive-functional approach |
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| an assessment approach that calls for the functional analysis of the client's thinking processes. In this approach, the clinician completes a careful analysis of the person's cognitions, how they are aiding or interfering with performance, and under what situations this is occurring. |
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| outcomes, or events that follow from the behavior of interest. |
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| an observational method in which the clinician exerts a certain amount of purposeful a certain amount of purposeful control over the events being observed; also known as analogue observational technique. controlled observation may be preferred in situations where a behavior does not occur very often on it's own or where normal events are likely to draw the patient outside the observer's range. |
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| controlled performance technique |
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| an assessment procedure in which the clinician places individuals in carefully controlled performance situations and collects data on their performance/behaviors, their emotional reactions (subjectively rated), and/or various psychophysiological indices. |
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| dysfunctional thought record |
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| completed by the client, it provides the client and therapist with a record of the client's automatic thoughts that are related to dysphoria or depression. |
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| ecological momentary assessment |
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| a new method of behavioral assessment in which participants record their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors as they occur in the natural environment. This is the typical accomplished through the use of electronic diaries. |
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| In the context of behavioral assessment, the extent to which the behaviors analyzed or observed are representative of a person's typical behavior. |
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| a technique used in behavior assessment in which individuals carry handheld computers that are programmed to prompt individuals complete assessments at that moment in time, in participants' natural environment. |
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| A central feature of behavioral assessment. In a functional analysis, careful analyses are made of the stimuli preceding a behavior and the consequences following from it to gain a precise understanding of the cause of the behavior. |
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| observation that is carried out in the patient's home by trained observers using an appropriate observational rating system. |
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| observation that is carried out in psychiatric hospitals or institutions using an observational device designed for that purpose. |
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| a primary technique of behavioral assessment. observation is often used to gain a better understanding of the frequency, strength, and pervasiveness of the problem behavior as well as the factors that are maintaining it. |
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| A phenomenon in which observers who work closely together subtly, and without awareness, begin to drift away from their ratings from those of other observers |
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| physical, physiological, or cognitive characteristics of the client that are important for both the conceptualization of the client's problem and the formulation of effective treatments. |
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| psychophysiological factors |
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| used to assess the CNS, ANS, or skeletomotor activity. The advantage of psychophysiological measures is that they may assess processes that are not directly assessed by the self-report or behavioral measures, and they tend to be more sensitive measures of these processes than alternative measures. Examples include event related potentials (ERP's), electromyographic (EMG) activity, electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, and electrodermal activity (EDA). |
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| in the context of observation, the phenomenon in which individuals respond to the fact that they are being observed by changing their behavior. |
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| a technique in which patients are directed to respond the way they would typically respond if they were in a given situation. The situation may be described to them or an assistant may actually act the part of another person. |
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| behavioral assessment uses a "sample" orientation to testing- that is, the goal is to gather examples that are representative of the situations and behaviors of interest. |
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| an observational technique in which individuals observe and record their own behaviors, thoughts, or emotions (including information on timing, frequency, intensity, and duration). |
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| traditional assessment uses a "sign" approach to testing- that is, the goal is to identify marks of underlying characteristics. |
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| a controlled observation technique in which the clinician places individuals in situations more or less similar to those in real life and then observes their reactions directly. |
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| a model for conceptualizing clinical problems from a behavioral perspective. In this model, S=the stimulus or antecedent conditions that bring on the problematic behavior, O=the organismic variables related to the behavior, R=the response of the behavior itself, and C=the consequences of the behavior. |
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| behavioral observation that is conducted in the school setting. As with home observation, trained observers rate the patient using an appropriate observational system. |
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| in the context of observation, the length of time observations will be made and the type and number of responses that will be rated. |
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