Single System Designs
Single System Design was referred to as ..
the backbone of practice and evaluation
other events may have occurred outside of the practice setting during the time as the contacts with the client
three
Two phase design consisting of a no-intervention baseline phase (A) and an intervention phase (B).
What is the purpose of recording a baseline?
Gives you an idea of the severity of the problem in its natural state.
Are there any circumstances when baseline information is invaluable?
Yes.
When you survey client concerns where do you start?
Where the client is
What does the threat of 'maturation' mean?
a physical or psychological change that occurred within the client that could have contributed to the observed change
What are the three conditions that must be present before a relationship is considered casual?
relationship must exist between the two variables, must be non-spurious, no time interval between one variable and the other
Does the existence of a baseline allows for the establishment of a relationship between intervention and outcome?
Yes
Can a baseline substitute a comprehensive assessment?
In practice instead of seeing problems what do you notice?
indicators of problems
What does the internal threat of 'testing' refer to?
the idea that taking a test may sensitize the client to future similar tests-therefor skew results
What is the first criteria for inferring causality?
temporal arrangement
What is the most widely used way to quantify results for a meta-analysis called?
Effect Size ES