Session Notes
The time your note needs to be completed within
24 hours
but it's highly encouraged that you do them within the last 15 minutes of your session (:
The initial phase of a goal
Baseline
The first category in phase 1
Calm/Baseline
A request/"command"
Mand
What happens before the behavior occurs
antecedent
What your note should be free of
subjectivity; opinions.
In this phase, the goal will periodically show back up on the client's data sheet.
Maintenance
The second category in phase 2
Trigger
Label
Tact
The "B" in "ABC"
Behavior
The number of sentences that you need to have in your session note
There should be one sentence per one hour of you session
The phase where we teach the skill
Intervention
The strategies listed in the calm/baseline phase
antecedent/prevention strategies
Repeating another person's verbal behavior
Echoic
What follows the behavior
Consequence
What strategies you mention when you discuss MABs
antecedent and response strategies
In this phase, the client should be able to display a skill or behavior in the presence of a variety of people, across various settings/contexts, and over increasing lengths of time
Generalization
Strategies used to de-escalate
Response strategies
a type of verbal behavior and involve much of our day-to-day language, such as emitting words, phrases, and sentences that are in response to the words, phrases, and sentences of others.
Intraverbal
What ABC data can help determine
The function of behavior
What you should do prior to converting your note, if the times are not correct
Contact scheduling!
What we use to teach a skill
Prompts
The first category of phase 2
acceleration/escalation
a verbal behavior that modifies the functions of other verbal behaviors
Autoclitic
The 4 functions of behavior
Sensory, Attention, Escape, Tangible