The Case File
A psychiatric evaluation is this type of record.
What is a medical record?
Eye contact, personal space, and communication style are all shaped by this.
What is culture?
An FA or FBA identifies this about a client and their behavior.
What is the function?
What are reinforcers?
These are the four 5 standard conditions of an FA.
What are attention, alone, tangible, demand and play
This tells you what types of interventions may have worked in the past.
What is behavioral history?
In some cultures, a quiet child during assessment is showing respect; in others, it suggests a deficit. This is why we must do this.
What is consider cultural variables?
When you can do something under one condition, but not under another, it shows a lack of this.
What is generalization?
What is evoke it?
What is the natural environment?
A family prioritizes group harmony and collective decisions, not individual choice. Recommending individual goals without this would be culturally insensitive.
What is understanding the family's values?
When you think a behavior may be tied to a certain time of day, you use this.
What is a scatter plot?
When we let a client explore the environment and write down what they engage with, we are doing this.
When we rely on multiple sources of information, we are using this.
What is convergent validity?
Before we can ethically intervene with behavioral interventions, we must first do this.
This could affect documentation concerns and fear of authority.
Assessment reveals a behavior that is annoying, but not interfering with daily life or access to preferred environments. This behavior would lack this.
What is social significance?
What is the client's age?
What do we do when we need another professional to help us work with a client?
What is make a referral.
We should only access and document these types of records.
What are relevant ones?
These are typically created using white, English speaking, middle class populations
What are norm referenced tools?
We don't reduce a behavior without also adding this.
This is the only tier of assessment that can establish a causal relationship.
We always want to provide support in this type of environment.
What is least restrictive and most supportive?