Ethical
Scenarios
Scenarios
First, they should confront the RBT and address the issue.
Then, they should notify their BCBA of the situation.
You are eating lunch in the break room and you overhear another RBT claiming that their patient's BIP is not effective and that they are trying out some new strategies that they came up with on their own. What should you do?
To prevent problem behavior from occurring, therefore the child does not access reinforcement for the behavior
Why is it important to implement antecedent interventions?
-It is not good enough to just try to suppress a problem behavior
-positive behaviors that get the same results as negative behaviors are more socially acceptable
Why do we teach functionally equivalent behaviors?
Imitation: "do this" / "copy me", child is not being trained to identify or tact the response but only model it
LR: "clap hands" "find the nose", child is being trained to follow target-specific instructions
What is the difference between an "imitation skill" and a "listener responding" skill?
10 dollars
Because the exchange of gifts can lead to conflicts of interest and multiple relationships, RBTs do not give gifts to or accept gifts from clients/families more than ____ dollars.
pro-actively increase amount of attention and engagement
Name an ANTECEDENT intervention for a behavior that's function is "attention"
Sanitize the environment
A child begins throwing play items and materials around them (property disruption) after given a demand to sit at the table. How could this have been avoided?
What is an SD?
Reiterate feedback given from the BCBA ONLY and trust that the BCBA will provide all other feedback to the co-therapist in their own consultation.
You notice that your co-therapist runs their session differently than you do and it makes you angry. What do you do?
FREQUENT ENGAGEMENT
Name an antecedent strategy that all therapists should be implementing with their patients prior to the occurrence of problem behavior
The function of the behavior is NOT attention, so the therapist should not be withdrawing their attention as a consequent strategy
Find the error:
Antecedent- Child gestures toward a puzzle, put it is out of reach
Behavior- Chid begins to tantrum
Consequence- Therapist implements planned ignoring
SD: Find apple
Demonstrate how you'd run this goal:
Rec ID Common Items: Apple
Redirect the question to the BCBA
Your client's parent tells you that they think their child has dyslexia and asks you what you think about it. You have dyslexia yourself and know a lot about it. What do you do?
-Enhanced Predictability Measures/visual schedules
-Timers/token Boards
-Functional communication training
-Non-Contingent reinforcement
-Pairing
-Variable reinforcement
-Errorless teaching
-Pace of instruction
-Intersperse easy and difficult tasks
What Antecedent Intervention Procedures are used for Escape-maintained behaviors? name at least 2
"hands to self"
Your patient punches another child in the face and laughs. How could you verbally redirect this behavior?
DRI- differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
What is this an example of?
You provide reinforcement to your client for clapping, and ignore him when he hits.
When a person only acts within their defined role in the workplace
Define "scope of competence"
There is more than one function behind a behavior (escape, attention, tangibles, sensory)
What does "multiply maintained" mean?
Prompt functional communication to select a different item
Your patient is engaging in severe vocal protest and is screaming at the top of their lungs. This occurred after you denied them access to popcorn. What consequent strategy might you see on their BIP?
This is when one SD is replaced by another, usually through fading or delay.
If I'm training a dog to sit when I point to the ground and the dog already responds after the verbal SD "Sit" ("sit" being under stimulus control.) I would start pairing that SD with a gesture to the ground. I could then start by gesturing first, then delay the "sit" (which is now being used as a prompt) Over time I could increase that delay and deferentially reinforce responses within a certain time limit of the the point to the ground. Eventually the dog should sit when he sees me point to the ground.
Define "Stimulus Control Transfer" without using the backpack/star, trash can, or stop sign example.