A comparison of methods for assessing child compliance during behavioral parent training

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare four methods of computing chiM compliance to parental instructions. Four noncompliant boys, ages 2.5 to 7 years, participated with their mothers in behavioral parent training. In order to evaluate the training, observers recorded the boys" compliance responses in continuous lO-sec intervals. The boys" rates of compliant responding were then computed by considering behavior (A) only in the first interval following the instruction, (B) in the first three intervals following the instruction, (C) in all intervals while the instruction was ongoing, and (D) only in the final