Functional analyses are the gold standard of confirming maintaining variables of problem behavior. Despite widespread support, many clinical settings instead use anecdotal assessments. These have been shown to have poor reliability when used by non-experts but can be useful for confirming maintaining variables of problem behavior when agreement has reached a certain level. We used behavior skills training to teach new staff member pairs behavior function to increase their reliability on these assessments. We found that although agreement increased slightly, this was not clinically significant. Out of the two pairs of participants one pair of participants was able to identify their client's maintaining variable of problem behavior. Future research should investigate the type of training used for non-experts for example training non-experts to state problem behavior in objective operational terms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2256891 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Drummond, Cody McPhail |
| Contributors | Dracobly, Joseph, Bergmann, Samantha, Becker, April |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Drummond, Cody McPhail, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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