Test 3 Study

Question 1

What are characteristics of school-based practices for identifying socio-emotional concerns? (3)

Answer 1

1. Dimensional. 2. Comprehensive social-emotional assessment. 3. Disability + academic need.

Question 2

What does a comprehensive social-emotional assessment in a school entail? (3)

Answer 2

1. Multi-method (interviews, observations, rating scales). 2. Looking at present levels of performance. 3. Determining function of behavior.

Question 3

In a school-based practice, do students only need disability or academic need, or do they need both?

Answer 3

Both.

Question 4

In a school-based practice, what describes a disability?

Answer 4

Evidence of a documented disability.

Question 5

In a school-based practice, what describes academic need?

Answer 5

An adverse impact with the student’s overall functioning in a general education setting.

Question 6

What are the advantages of a school-based practice? (3)

Answer 6

1. Pre-referral intervention process. 2. Continuum of support services. 3. Generalization of skills.

Question 7

What is included in the pre-referral intervention process? (3)

Answer 7

1. Universal screening. 2. Student study teams. 3. Student data.

Question 8

What are the disadvantages of a school-based practice? (6)

Answer 8

1. Research to practice gap. 2. Duration of treatment. 3. Monitoring treatment outcomes. 4. Family involvement. 5. Home-school collaborations. 6. School culture and climate.

Question 9

What are the eight intervention points for matching treatments to youth/families?

Answer 9

1. Language. 2. Persons. 3. Metaphors. 4. Content. 5. Concepts. 6. Goals. 7. Methods. 8. Context.

Question 10

What percent of children with OCD who received exposure and response therapy no longer had the diagnosis of OCD?

Answer 10

40%.

Question 11

What describes the best evidence or an EBT for a treatment? (3)

Answer 11

1. At least 2 randomized trials demonstrating efficacy. 2. Experiments must be conducted with treatment manuals.. 3. Effects must have been demonstrated by at least 2 different investigator teams.

Question 12

When evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment 2 randomized trials must be conducted demonstrating efficacy compared to? (2)

Answer 12

1. Superior to pill placebo, psychological placebo, or another treatment. 2. Equivalent to all other groups representing at least one level 1 or level 2 treatment in a study with adequate statistical power (30 participants per group on average) that showed significant pre-study to post-study change in the index group as well as the group(s) being tied.