Ch3 Flashcards
What are the criteria for treatment procedure to be included in the library of possible procedures?
A study must meet rigorous peer-reviewed standards of excellence; a clear demonstration of experimental control must be shown; simple correlations need not apply
What makes behavior analysis unique?
Behavior analysis is unique in being the only human services approach to base treatment methods on science; must be a scientific basis for a treatment itself; studies must show clear demonstrations of experimental control; treatments are often carried out by paraprofessionals under supervisors; work happens in real-world settings; some third-party entity has to keep tabs on behavior analyst professionals; evidence-based (data-based) treatment
What is meant by third-party referral?
The third-party is the referring person, the person who has made the referral for the client to the provider
What is the major concern of a third-party referral?
We need to make sure that the third-party has not made a referral for treatment based on mere convenience; for example, it may be less important to treat an individual for yelling and screaming or trying to run away and more important to determine the cause for these behaviors; myriad complexities that are encountering behavior analyst works for a third-party presents perhaps the most difficult challenges of all, because to denying employer’s request me result in termination
What is meant by the behavior is not only quite severe but also complex in nature?
As determinists, we assume that the behavior we see has a causal basis, and we believe that doing a functional analysis will help yield information that will produce valid, ethical treatment; arriving at the point of treatment involves myriad variables that are difficult to assess: medical conditions, maintaining variables, conditioned reinforcers, complex schedules of intermittent reinforcement, establishing operations, discriminative stimuli, setting events