Antecedent Strategies (Part 1)
Giving the client a choice between two or three different activities/items increases the likelihood they will transition/ make a choice in the first place.
What is antecedent choice?
A strategy used to prepare a client for a situation or a task to prepare them with relevant information beforehand.
What is priming?
A method for teaching skills by utilizing opportunities in the natural setting in which they occur.
What is natural environmental training?
Requesting an item, information, or activity.
What is a mand?
BONUS - Give an example
Providing reinforcement for a target behavior while withholding reinforcement for unwanted behavior. This includes changing the frequency, magnitude, or duration of the reinforcement.
What is differential reinforcement?
A therapist freely delivering preferred items or activities to a client and engaging with the client in a fun way before presenting academic demands.
What is pre-session pairing?
An instructional strategy that provides a prompt or cue immediately following the instruction to ensure correct responding.
What is errorless teaching?
A method to sequentially teach skills by breaking them down into smaller parts to teach each step one a time until mastery is demonstrated.
What is discrete trial training (DTT)?
Labeling items, actions, and experiences.
What is a tact?
BONUS - Give an example
Any prior events that can impact the likelihood problem behavior will occur.
What are setting events?
Making changes to the environment that will help your client be more successful while you look to build tolerance and other skills.
What is environmental manipulation?
When a client is given access to the environment to determine preferred tangibles/activities.
What is free operant preference assessment?
A procedure to decrease challenging behavior by teaching more socially acceptable ways to communicate.
What is functional communication training?
Verbally repeating what another person says.
What is echoic?
BONUS - Give an example
Performing a skill under different conditions, applying a skill in a different way, and continuing to perform a skill over time.
What is generalization?
Keeping track of the basic needs of the human body. For example, food, drink, warmth, and pain.
What is attending to physiological needs?
Providing the client with things that satisfy the function of a maladaptive behavior, before those behaviors have a chance to occur.
What is non-contingent reinforcement?
BONUS - Give an example
Breaks a task down into small steps and then teaches each step within the sequence by itself.
What is chaining?
Responding to the words of other people without repeating exactly what the other person just said.
What is intraverbal?
BONUS - Give an example
A client's verbal or nonverbal agreement to treatment that is ongoing and can be withdrawn at any point.
What is assent?
Bonus - Give an example of assent withdrawal
An agreement between a client and therapist, which outlines the completion of a specific behavior and access to or delivery of a specified preferred item/activity.
What is contingency contracting?
Predicting what a client wants or how they feel before an event happens by providing them with appropriate words to access a reinforcer.
What is mands antecedently?
BONUS - Give an example
Teaching new behavior by systematically reinforcing closer approximations until the target behavior is achieved.
What is shaping?
What is receptive language?
BONUS - Give an example
Something that is assessed by a therapist to determine a proper level of care.
What is level of functioning?