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Title: Conjoint Behavioral Consultation


1
Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
The Future of School Psychology Task Force on
Family-School Partnerships Susan Sheridan,
Michelle Swanger-Gagne, Kathryn Woods, Kathryn
Black, Jennifer Burt, S. Andrew Garbacz, Ashley
Taylor University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
  • A structured, indirect form of service delivery
    in which teachers and parents are brought
    together to collaboratively identify and address
    students needs (Sheridan et al., 1996 Sheridan
    Kratochwill, 1992).
  • Extension of the traditional behavioral
    consultation model that serves parents and
    teachers at the same time.
  • Interview stages are the same as in that of
    behavioral consultation, except that stages are
    conducted in a simultaneous (rather than
    parallel) manner.
  • Parents and teachers collaborate to
  • Address the academic, behavioral, and social
    concerns of a child
  • Monitor a childs behavior
  • Design an intervention
  • Rated by parents and teachers as the most
    acceptable consultation approach for academic,
    behavioral, and social-emotional problems when
    compared with teacher consultation models (Freer
    Watson, 1999).

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Process Goals of CBC
  • Improve communication and knowledge about child
    and family.
  • Increase commitments to educational goals.
  • Address problems across, rather than within,
    settings.
  • Promote shared ownership for need identification
    and solution.
  • Promote greater conceptualization of a need.
  • Increase the diversity of expertise and resources
    available.

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Process Goals of CBC (continued)
  • Establish and strengthen home-school
    partnerships enhance the family-school
    relationship.
  • Refers to a mutual effort toward a shared goal.
  • Contains the philosophy, attitude, and belief
    that both families and educators are essential
    for childrens progress in school.
  • Working together to promote the academic and
    social development of students.

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Outcomes Goals of CBC
  • Obtain comprehensive and functional data over
    extended temporal and contextual bases.
  • Identify potential setting events that are
    temporally or contextually distal to target.
  • Improve skills and knowledge of all parties.
  • Establish consistent programming across settings.
  • Monitor behavioral contrast and side effects
    systematically via cross-setting treatment
    agents.
  • Develop skills and competencies for future
    conjoint problem solving.
  • Enhance generalization and maintenance of
    treatment effects.

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Stages of CBC
  • Preconsultation
  • Conjoint Needs Identification
  • Conjoint Needs Analysis
  • Conjoint Plan Implementation
  • Conjoint Needs Evaluation
  • See PC Handout 3

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Preconsultation
  • Important process of communication, relationship
    building, cohesion begins well before formal
    consultation stages and continues throughout!
  • Opportunities for inviting participation and
    sharing information should be seized whenever
    possible
  • Use initial contacts to ensure that participants
    know what to expect (and what not to expect) in
    consultation
  • See Pre-CBC Handouts 1 - 3

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Conjoint Needs Identification Initiating
Formal Consultation
  • Standard consultation forms outline specific
    objectives of the CNII
  • Use agenda for participants to keep them informed
    of the process and meeting objectives (see CNII
    Handout 1)
  • See CNII Handouts 2 and 3 for structured CNII
    forms

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CNII Childs Strengths/Assets
  • Strengths, abilities, or other positive features
    of the client
  • Can also include things that the client likes,
    which can be used in reinforcement programs
  • Examples
  • What are some of Jamies strengths?
  • What are some things Kevin does well?

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CNII Behavior Specification/Needs
Identification
  • Elicit behavioral descriptions of client
    functioning
  • Focus is on specific behaviors of the client in
    terms that can be understood by an independent
    observer
  • Ask for as many examples of the problem behavior
    as possible
  • Careful specification is essential to identify
    the precise problem, direct the focus of an
    intervention, and monitor progress
  • Assist consultee focus on a specific target
    problem by asking for a priority
  • For example, What is causing you the most
    concern? or Which of these behaviors is most
    problematic for Joey?

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Guidelines for Target Selection
Always
  • Focus on building a clients skill repertoire,
    rather than simply extinguishing behaviors
  • Prioritize urgent or dangerous behaviors if they
    pose serious risk or invoke serious consequences
  • Select a target that leads to the best treatment
    outcome (treatment validity, generalization) --
    HOW??

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Guidelines for Target Selection
Consider
  • Identifying a response chain and target first
    behavior of the chain
  • Selecting behaviors that will likely generalize
    to other behaviors (e.g., work completion with
    generalization to on-task or accuracy)
  • Organizing behaviors in terms of their
    topographical or functional properties
  • Prioritizing behaviors that have general utility
    and that the environment will likely maintain
    (e.g., social skills)
  • Changing the easiest behavior to encourage
    further treatment efforts
  • Changing behaviors that are most irritating to or
    preferred by the consultees

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Operationalizing the Target Behavior
  • Operational Definition
  • A precise description of the behavior of concern
    to the consultee
  • Criteria
  • Objective observable characteristics of
    behavior must be countable and measurable
  • Clear unambiguous, specific, reliable should
    be explainable to others should not require
    interpretation on the part of an observer
  • Complete describes what is included and
    excluded leaves little to judgement of observer
  • It is often helpful to include information about
    situations/conditions where/when the behavior
    occurs
  • SUMMARIZE VALIDATE TARGET BEHAVIOR -- WRITE IT
    DOWN!!!

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Case Example Prioritizing Operationalizing
Target Behaviors
  • Parent and teacher describe the following
    concerns about 8 year old Pedro
  • talks out/talks back
  • fights, argues, complains
  • fails to complete assignments/tasks
  • uses obscene language
  • doesnt get along with other kids/siblings
  • doesnt pay attention to lectures or instructions
  • tardy for school
  • As a consultant, how would you go about helping
    consultees prioritize and operationalize a target
    behavior in the case of Pedro??

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CNII Behavior Setting
  • A precise description of the specific settings
    in which the problem behavior occurs at home and
    at school
  • Specific within-school and within-home settings
    important to prioritize
  • Ask for as many examples of problem settings as
    possible
  • In academic areas, this may include subject areas
    and not just physical environment
  • Assist consultees prioritize problem settings by
    asking which setting is causing the most difficult

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CNII Antecedent Conditions
  • A tentative delineation of events that precede
    the clients behavior
  • Ask for information regarding what happens
    before the problem behavior occurs
  • Setting events Antecedents that are removed in
    time or place from the target behavior, but that
    bear a functional relationship to its occurrence

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CNII Sequential Conditions
  • Situational /ecological variables or events
    occurring when the behavior occurs
  • Environmental (contextual) conditions in
    operation when the problem behavior occurs
  • Pattern or trend of antecedent and/or consequent
    conditions across a series of occasions
  • Examples
  • Time of day
  • Day of week
  • Class period or common situations
  • Expectations of child (e.g., task demands)
  • Sequence of events
  • Curricular or instructional variables

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Ecological Assessment Existing Conditions
  • Curricular assessment What is taught
  • Instructional assessment How it is taught
  • Variables to assess include materials, teaching
    format, assignments, daily routine, student
    grouping, evaluation and feedback procedures,
    homework

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CNII Consequent Conditions
  • A tentative delineation of events that follow the
    clients behavior
  • Ask for information regarding what happens after
    the problem behavior occurs
  • Setting events Consequences that are removed in
    time or place from the target behavior, but which
    are related to its occurrence
  • Examples Being removed from the class, staying
    in from recess
  • SUMMARIZE VALIDATE CONDITIONS SURROUNDING
    BEHAVIOR

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CNII Behavior Strength
  • Attain a tentative estimate of the frequency or
    duration of a problem behavior
  • Level of incidence that is to be focused on
  • Examples
  • Frequency
  • Duration
  • Latency
  • Intensity
  • SUMMARIZE VALIDATE BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR STRENGTH

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CNII Goal Statement
  • Assist consultee generate an acceptable or
    appropriate level of the behavior
  • Examples
  • How often would Patrick have to turn in his work
    in order to get along OK?
  • How much time could Sally take to respond to
    your request?
  • What would be an acceptable amount of talking
    out in class?

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CNII Existing Procedures
  • Procedures or rules in force which are external
    to the child and behavior
  • Questions regarding approach to teaching or
    parenting
  • Examples
  • How long are Stacy and the others doing
    seatwork?
  • What are the playground rules?
  • How do you currently handle Pauls talking
    back?
  • How are instructions/directions given to Anna?

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CNII Data Collection
  • Rationale provided to set the stage for data
    collection (why)
  • Examples It would be very helpful to observe
    Sam in the lunchroom and see exactly how often he
    throws his food. This will help us understand...
    make comparisons later...
  • Specific data collection procedures discussed
  • Common observation procedures include event,
    duration, interval, momentary time sample,
    latency
  • Permanent product measures easy, useful
  • Procedures must be appropriate for the target
    behavior, and continued throughout consultation
  • Provide a form on which consultees can collect
    data, if possible
  • See CNII Handout 4 for example

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Behavioral Assessment
  • Data collected must have high treatment utility
    and be relevant to treatment
  • Direct assessments will lead to meaningful
    treatments if they promote greater understanding
    of a behavior
  • On-going and repeated measurement, rather than
    pre/post assessment only, is required
  • Multi-source, multi-method multi-setting
    assessment strategies are used along the direct
    gtgtgt indirect continuum
  • Multi-source Collect information from teacher,
    parent(s), peers, self, others
  • Multi-method Collect information using different
    methods, such as rating scales, interviews,
    observations
  • Multi-setting Collect information across
    settings of home and school, and other relevant
    settings as appropriate (e.g., classroom,
    playground, lunchroom, library, etc.)

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Tips for Data Collection
  • Keep it simple!
  • Clearly define what is to be recorded
  • Match the data collection procedure to the target
    behavior
  • Consider retrospective baseline data when
    applicable
  • Graph the data to monitor progress
  • Record data that have a range (i.e., not simply
    yes/no

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Practical, Direct Data Collection Procedures
  • Permanent Products
  • Direct Observation
  • Performance-Based Assessment
  • Curriculum-Based Measurement
  • Self-Monitoring

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Permanent Product
  • Concrete evidence of a students behavior taken
    from an existing source
  • Examples
  • Percent of homework assignments completed
  • Number of worksheets completed in a subject area
  • Number of pages read
  • Number of problems attempted/completed/accurate
  • Organization of work on a page

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Direct Observation
  • Measurement of discrete behaviors while they are
    occurring
  • Examples
  • On task/off task
  • Disruptive behavior
  • Out of seat
  • Talking out
  • Initiating conversations
  • Compliance with commands

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Direct Observations
  • How to
  • Low frequency behaviors
  • Frequency counts using golf counter, pennies,
    tallies on wristband
  • How to
  • High frequency behaviors
  • Identify intervals that are easy to monitor
  • Consider momentary time sampling procedure

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Performance-Based Assessment
  • Use of rating scales to record behaviors over
    time periods, based on a Likert scale
  • Examples
  • Aggression
  • Oppositional behavior
  • Active participation in activities

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Curriculum-Based Measurement
  • The use of standardized short-duration fluency
    measures of basic, any testing strategy that uses
    a students curriculum to monitor progress and as
    the basis for decision-making
  • Examples
  • Reading fluency and accuracy
  • Math digits correct
  • Spelling correct words

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Self-Monitoring
  • An observation technique wherein students are
    responsible for recording their own behaviors
  • Examples
  • On-task behaviors
  • Following instructions
  • Beginning work on time
  • Completing chores/tasks
  • Cognitive events such as using self-control,
    problem solving, experiencing depressive
    symptomotology

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Goal Attainment Scaling
  • A rating on a 5-point scale (from -2 to 2) based
    on the degree to which a students performance is
    approximating a predetermined goal
  • Somewhere between a direct and subjective
    measurement system
  • Examples
  • Work completion
  • Accuracy on academic tasks
  • Compliance
  • Using self control
  • Social skill development

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CNII Data Collection
  • Specify the target response to record, the kind
    of measure, and procedures for recording (what,
    when, where, how)
  • SUMMARIZE VALIDATE RECORDING PROCEDURES
  • Establish date to begin data collection

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CNII Closing
  • Establish date of next appointment
  • Date, time, place
  • Closing Salutation
  • Bye! Good luck!
  • Ill check back in a few days to see how things
    are going.
  • Call me if you have questions or problems!

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Conjoint Needs Analysis Interview Opening the
Interview
  • Use agenda for participants to keep them informed
    of the process and meeting objectives (See CNAI
    Handout 1)
  • General Statement re Data and Problem
  • Make a general statement to orient consultee
    toward data
  • Questions or Statement about Behavior Strength
  • Questions and statements about specific data,
    behaviors, and patterns
  • Statement determining representativeness of the
    data

See CNAI Handouts 2 and 3 for structured CNAI
forms
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CNAI Conditions/Functional Analysis
  • Underlying assumptions of behavior
  • Behavior is contextually defined
  • Behaviors arise in relation to environmental
    events i.e., both the consequences that maintain
    them and the setting events/antecedents that
    precede them
  • The context, and not the form of the behavior,
    determines how a behavior is perceived (i.e., its
    appropriateness)
  • Why is this important to understand in
    consultation?

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CNAI Conditions/Functional Analysis
  • Adequate functional analysis may highlight
    important functions of a behavior (i.e., lead to
    functional hypotheses) or pinpoint environmental
    events (i.e., lead to contextual hypotheses) that
    impact or maintain the target behavior
  • Functions refer to the function that a behavior
    serves for an individual, and are often related
    to environmental conditions that reinforce its
    occurrence (i.e., motivate a person to engage in
    the behavior)
  • Examples include attention, escape, avoidance,
    others
  • It is critically important to conduct a careful
    conditions/functional analysis to accurately
    generate hypotheses and develop meaningful
    interventions

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Primary Outcomes of the Functional Assessment
Process
  • A clear description of the problem behaviors,
    including classes or sequences of behaviors that
    frequently occur together
  • Identification of events, times, and situations
    that predict when the problem behaviors will and
    will not occur
  • Identification of the consequences that maintain
    the problem behaviors (i.e., what functions the
    behaviors appear to serve for the person)

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Primary Outcomes of the Functional Assessment
Process
  • Development of one or more summary statements or
    hypotheses that describe specific behaviors, a
    specific type of situation in which they occur,
    and the outcomes or reinforcers maintaining them
    in that situation
  • Collection of direct observation data that
    support the summary statements that have been
    developed

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CNAI Conditions/Contextual Analysis
  • Antecedents, Consequences, Sequential/Ecological
    conditions are explored in relation to the
    specific data collected by consultees
  • What happened before, after, and during the
    occurrence of the target behavior?
  • What things may have triggered or maintained a
    behavior?
  • What patterns were present that may be related to
    the occurrence of a target behavior?
  • Trends across settings (e.g., home and school)
    are investigated cross-setting conditions and
    setting events are highlighted when appropriate
  • Are there common things that happen across
    settings that trigger or maintain a behavior?
  • Do events occurring in one setting precipitate,
    trigger, or predict a behavior in another setting?

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Conditions Analysis Summary
  • Environmental variables can function as
    discriminative stimuli for behaviors, as
    consequences that maintain behavior, and as
    stimuli that elicit behavior
  • Environment covariation can reflect a causal
    relationship, so it is important to identify
    environmental sources of behavioral variance
  • Ask to what extent do target behaviors
    demonstrate covariation with environmental
    events, and can these controlling environmental
    stimuli be targeted for modification?

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CNAI Skills Analysis
  • Often what appears to be behavior problems are
    in reality related to skill (vs. performance)
    deficits
  • Cant do vs. wont do (i.e., skill vs. will)
  • Skills analyses are important when the target
    behavior concerns skills to be mastered
  • Steps of skills analyses
  • Identify target skill that should be present
  • Break the skill down into component parts
  • Assess the clients ability to perform each
    component
  • Determine the uppermost level at which the client
    can perform
  • Develop an intervention starting at this point

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CNAI Hypothesis Generation
  • Can be based on the function, context, or
    skills/deficits surrounding the behavior
  • Hypotheses addressing function are based on an
    examination of the consequences that are presumed
    to maintain the behavior
  • Contextual hypotheses are based on an analysis of
    the settings or events wherein a behavior is
    likely to occur
  • Skills hypotheses are based on the identification
    of deficits in the childs behavioral repertoire

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CNAI Interpretation/Hypothesis Statement
  • Consultant elicits consultees perception
    regarding the purpose, function, or causes of
    the behavior
  • Careful (strategic) questioning and summaries
    prior to this point in the process should assist
    consultees in forming appropriate hypotheses
  • More appropriate interpretations should be
    provided by the consultant when necessary
  • Interpretation should be based on the
    conditions/skills/functional analyses
    (behaviorally- or environmentally-based, rather
    than following a medical model)
  • Provides an important link between assessment and
    intervention!

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Case Example
  • During independent work time, Servio daydreams
    and fails to complete any math worksheet
    problems. When his teacher tells him to get to
    work, he argues that he is working, and sometimes
    writes down random answers. The teacher requires
    students to bring uncompleted or incorrect work
    home. At home, Servios mother works the night
    shift and leaves the house at 700. She tries to
    get him to do his homework before leaving, but he
    spends his time watching TV, fighting with his
    younger brother, and arguing with his mother.
    Servio leaves to catch the bus before his mother
    gets home from work. Upon returning to school, he
    doesnt turn in his worksheet and gets a 0 in
    the gradebook.
  • What are some possible target behaviors in this
    case?
  • What are some possible antecedents, consequences,
    and sequential conditions in this case?
    (Contextual analysis)
  • What are some possible functions of his
    behaviors? (Functional analysis)
  • What are some important areas to explore during
    the conditions analysis?

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CNAI Plan Strategies
  • Focus on identifying
  • Ways to change the context
  • Ways to prevent the problem behavior
  • Ways to increase expected behavior or teach a
    replacement behavior
  • What should happen when the problem behavior
    occurs
  • What should happen when the desired behavior or
    replacement behavior occurs

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CNAI Plan Strategies
  • Consultant and consultee establish general
    strategies and specific tactics that might be
    used in treatment implementation
  • Strategies should be related to the
    hypothesis/interpretation statement
  • May use brainstorming techniques
  • SUMMARIZE VALIDATE PLAN
  • Use form and write it down!
  • See CNAI Handouts 4 - 7

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Other Considerations When Designing Intervention
Programs
  • Diagnosis
  • Target Behavior Characteristics
  • Intervention Variables
  • Consultee Variables
  • Intervention History

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Interventions That Influence Antecedents of
Problem Behavior
  • Alter schedule of activities
  • Adapt curriculum or task-specific aspects of
    instruction
  • Vary size of instructional groupings
  • Provide special directions regarding instruction
  • Introduce pre-corrective strategies before
    problems occur
  • Teach students rules.

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Factors That Influence Success of Consequence
Components of a Behavioral Intervention Plan
  • Length of reinforcement interval
  • Program reinforcers
  • Reinforcement variables.

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Factors Influencing Acceptability of Intervention
  • Consistent with teacher and parent beliefs and
    values
  • Does not require too much effort or time
  • Does not exceed the skill level of the teacher or
    parent (with support)
  • Is unobtrusive
  • Holds promise of effectiveness!

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Escape-Motivated Behavior
  • Description Student need to escape from an
    aversive situation.
  • Examples difficult, irrelevant lengthy or
    ambiguous assignment undesirable group
    placement negative peer or adult interaction.
  • Intervention Options
  • Instruction in signal responses

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Attention-Seeking Behavior
  • Description Unmet student need for attention,
    coupled with perception that attention is
    unlikely to occur.
  • Examples call outs, swearing, yelling at
    classmate or teacher tantrum or noncompliance
    with adult request.
  • Intervention Options
  • Non-contingent attention

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Strategies to Support Positive Behavior Changes
  • Social/environmental re-engineering
  • Cognitive mediation and self-management
  • Periodic booster training
  • Advocacy training
  • Accept just noticeable difference.

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CNAI Closing
  • Continue data collection procedures
  • Important that data collection continue in the
    same manner (time, setting, procedure) as
    collected during baseline!
  • Establish next appointment
  • Closing salutation

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Conjoint Plan Evaluation Interview
  • Use agenda for participants to keep them informed
    of the process and meeting objectives (See CPEI
    Handout 1)
  • Review data collected by consultees chart or
    graph the data prior to the meeting if at all
    possible

See CPEI Handouts 2 and 3 for structured CPEI
forms
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Treatment Evaluation
  • The data gathering activity that allows the
    consultant to determine
  • What progress the client is making
  • The overall success of an intervention
  • The overall success of services

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Treatment Evaluation as Feedback
  • Feedback is provided to consultant and consultees
    throughout the course of consultation
  • Evaluation allows for immediate modification of
    the treatment plan, if necessary
  • Evaluation/feedback can suggest information about
    the adequacy of treatment implementation
    (integrity and strength)

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Requirements of Best Practices in Treatment
Evaluation
  • Take systematic, relevant, and repeated measures
    of the target behavior
  • Specify treatments in such a way that they can be
    replicated
  • Determine whether treatments are actually
    benefiting the client
  • Use appropriate design elements (time-series
    methodology) to demonstrate and replicate
    meaningful outcomes/effects

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Evaluating the Intervention
  • Remember
  • Techniques making up the intervention must be
    completely identified and described
  • Written summaries/manuals are helpful
  • Specification enhances treatment integrity and
    allows for empirical investigation of the
    treatment program
  • Careful specification is critical for replication
    purposes

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Establishing the Degree of Variability
  • Sources of Variability
  • Measurement procedures/measurement error
  • Extraneous variables/outside influences
  • Treatment program (the good kind of variability!)
  • Remember
  • The influences of measurement error and
    extraneous variables must be sufficiently limited
    or clear to enable a reasonable statement about
    the effects of the treatment

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What to Do if Data are Excessively Variable
  • Wait and see if patterns become clearer
    variability may be temporary
  • Analyze the sources of variability
  • Explore possible effects due to measurement error
  • Identify possible extraneous variables
  • Attempt to control all possible extraneous
    variables
  • Examine the temporal unit of analysis (e.g.,
    daily vs. weekly data sets). Some detail may be
    lost, but Part of good clinical skill seems to
    involve knowing when to ignore individual trees
    in order to see the forest (Hayes Nelson,
    1986, p. 439).

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Improving Consultation Cases
  • Use objective (e.g., frequency counts), rather
    than subjective data
  • Collect data continuously throughout all phases
    of case study (baseline, treatment, follow up)
  • Collect historical data effects of treatment are
    more convincing if problems are chronic and
    intractable

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Improving Consultation Cases
  • Consider repeating procedures over a number of
    cases to replicate the effects
  • Include diverse subjects in replication attempts
    to assess breadth of intervention
  • Standardize assessment and treatment procedures,
    including consultation procedures
  • For example, by using structured interview forms
    and standard intervention programs, the details
    of what was done (and how) becomes clear

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Improving Consultation Cases
  • Assess treatment integrity to ensure that the
    intervention was implemented correctly
  • This allows for immediate revisions or attention
  • Only when interventions are implemented
    appropriately can effects of the intervention be
    determined
  • Assess clinical meaningfulness of outcomes
    through social validation procedures
  • Treatment acceptability
  • Perceptions of effectiveness of interventions
  • Subjective measures of outcomes
  • Degree to which consultation goals were met
  • Assess generalization and follow up

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Improving Consultation Cases
  • Formalize procedures for analyzing case data
  • Level changes from baseline to treatment
  • Immediacy effects
  • Overlap in data points across phases
  • Within phase variability
  • Trend in baseline and treatment (see Tawney
    Gast)
  • Use formal design structure when possible
  • ABAB (reversal design)
  • A/B/BC/A (multi-element design with reversal)
  • Multiple baseline designs

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Assessing Client Outcomes
  • Direct Observations
  • Consultees can collect data daily, but keep
    procedures simple! (see consultation record)
  • Use permanent product data if appropriate
  • Include independent observations when possible
    (e.g., weekly)
  • Include procedures for improving case studies
    (Galloway Sheridan, 1994 Kratochwill, 1985)

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Assessing Client Outcomes
  • Goal Attainment Scaling
  • Provides a method for quantifying parents and
    teachers reports of treatment progress with
    regard to a target behavior and consultation goal
  • Ratings are made on a 5-point scale from 2 to
    -2 (2behavioral goal fully met 1behavioral
    goal partially met 0no progress toward goal
    -1behavior somewhat worse -2behavior
    significantly worse)
  • Assess periodically (e.g., weekly) throughout
    treatment

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Assessing Client Outcomes
  • Rating Scales Questionnaires
  • Include pre- and post- standardized checklists as
    they relate to your case (e.g., SSRS, Conners
    Questionnaires, etc.)
  • Include Problem Behavior Questionnaire during
    problem identification/analysis to obtain
    information about the function of the target
    behavior

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Problem Behavior Questionnaire
  • 15-item scale completed by teachers
  • Responses based on the degree to which an event
    is likely to be observed relative to a problem
    behavior
  • Five functional areas assessed access to peer
    attention, access to teacher attention,
    escape/avoidance of peer attention,
    escape/avoidance of teacher attention, setting
    events

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Problem Behavior Questionnaire
  • Scores plotted on the PBQ Profile
  • Items marked 3 or above are considered potential
    hypotheses for the problem behavior if 2 or more
    items within one area are rated 3 or above, a
    primary hypothesis is suggested
  • Authors suggest that interventions should focus
    on teaching the student an alternative behavior
    that serves the same function as the problem
    behavior

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Assessing Client Outcomes
  • Social Validity
  • Include social comparison and subjective
    evaluation data (Kazdin, 1977)
  • Treatment Acceptability
  • Include Child Intervention Rating Profile (Witt
    Elliott)
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