AN ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE MISPLACED PARENTAL SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES¹

Abstract

This study analyzed the training of a mother to modify five subclasses of her attention to her young child's noncompliance with instructions, and also displayed the changes in her child's behavior correlated with these events. Training in four subclasses consisted of teaching the mother to withhold various forms of social attention to her daughter's undesired behavior; training in the fifth subclass involved introduction of a brief room-timeout procedure for noncompliance. The effectiveness of the parent-training procedure, consisting of initial instructions and daily feedback, was demonstrated through a multiple-baseline design across the five subclasses of parent behavior. Sequential decreases in the first three subclasses of the mother's social attention to undesired child behavior resulted in incomplete improvements in some child responses; however, a decrease in the fourth subclass resulted in a significant increase in undesired child behavior. Complete remediation of all child behaviors was achieved following the training of a timeout procedure for noncompliance. Postchecks conducted up to 16 weeks later showed that these effects were durable.

The Class Specific Effects of Compliance Training With “Do” and “Don't” Requests: Analogue Analysis and Classroom Application

“…Accordingly, noncompliance has been the focus of a number of investigations in both laboratory (clinic) and applied (home and school) settings. A number of studies have suggested that child noncompliance is a behavior that is functionally related to other child behaviors which may be members of a 1983,16,[81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99] NUMBER I (SPRING 1983) common response class (Budd, Green, & Baer, 1976;Nordquist, 1971;Russo, Cataldo, & Cushing, 1981;Wahler, 1975;Wahler & Nordquist, 1973;Zeilberger, Sampen, & Sloane, 1968). In addition, the response class relationship of compliance among requests has been addressed.…”

Family Involvement in Intervention with Children Having Severe Handicaps

“…As Budd et al (1976) noted, this omission can have serious impact upon the in tervention chosen. An accurate analysis of behavior problems occurring in the home should include iden tification of family behaviors and activities that co-vary with the child's targeted behaviors.…”

“…In an effort to discover the reason for these earlier results, Budd, Green and Baer (1976) treated a noncompliancy problem by directing intervention toward aspects of the mother's behavior in a single motherchild pair. After observing both mother and child in a request situation, intervention was focused upon five of the mother's behaviors which appeared to co-vary with the child's noncompliance.…”

“…Behavior change with severely handicapped children is a complex process. These authors have suggested that both parent and child Family Involvement 219 behaviors should be measured simultaneously when differential social attention is used as a change strategy (Budd et al, 1976;Herbert et al, 1973;Wahler, 1969).…”

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

“…If this method is employed, it would be important to obtain supplemental information regarding child behavior during instructional trials [cf. Budd et al (1976), who measured inappropriate behavior in addition to instruction-completion compliance].…”