Assessing and Treating Elopement in a School Setting

Phillips, Lauren A.; Briggs, Adam M.; Fisher, Wayne W.; Greer, Brian

doi:10.1177/0040059918770663

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“…On a practical level, results of the current study, along with those by Betz et al (2013) and Fisher et al (2016), may be useful for practitioners to consider when faced with the need to conduct schedule thinning, in that they may save time by at least probing more extended durations of the S Δ before proceeding through gradual increases that are suggested in some practitioner resources (e.g., Phillips, Briggs, Fisher, & Greer, 2018). Even if FCRs do not remain differentiated (e.g., as with Walter in the current study), we demonstrated the ability to recover differentiation by reversing to the previous S Δ duration.…”

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Comparison of naturalistic and arbitrary discriminative stimuli during schedule thinning following functional communication training

Boyle

Bacon

Carton

et al. 2020

Behavioral Interventions

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We replicated and extended research on incorporating naturalistic discriminative stimuli into schedule thinning following functional communication training with three boys with autism spectrum disorder who engaged in severe behavior. Comparing naturalistic to arbitrary discriminative stimuli, two participants demonstrated differentiated communication in fewer sessions when arbitrary stimuli were used, while the third participant mastered the discriminations in a comparable number of sessions. Although previous research has demonstrated success in rapidly thinning the schedule with arbitrary stimuli, we extended this line of research by evaluating the extent to which differentiated communication would maintain during rapid schedule thinning in both naturalistic and arbitrary conditions. Two participants' communication remained differentiated, and in both conditions, during rapid schedule thinning. However, neither discrimination maintained for the third participant. Results are discussed in terms of the existing literature and directions for future research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 75%

Comparison of naturalistic and arbitrary discriminative stimuli during schedule thinning following functional communication training

Boyle

Bacon

Carton

et al. 2020

Behavioral Interventions

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“…Elopement involves a student running away or bolting away from a nonpreferred setting or toward a preferred setting (Phillips et al, 2018). Elopement can be problematic for a student in many ways, as it can lead to potentially dangerous situations including traffic accidents and abduction when the student elopes from a building (Anderson et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Methods reported for the assessment of elopement included interviews, observations, and functional analyses (Lang et al, 2009). Phillips et al (2018) provide a more specific protocol for the assessment that includes developing a data collection system, conducting a trial‐based functional analysis, and then using the results to identify an intervention to the function(s) identified through the assessment.…”

Section: Behavior Assessment Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…School teams often attempt to intervene with preventative measures that are not based on assessment. They may increase restrictions to the student's environment such as keeping doors closed, locking exits, and positioning a student's desk away from exits (Phillips et al, 2018). Consultation with behavior analysts or other professionals with expertise in behavior analysis may be needed to effectively treat elopement and teach and reinforce an alternative appropriate behavior.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Applying behavioral analytic consultation to schools to assess and treat a student's elopement

Lill

Bassingthwaite

Cox

2021

Psychology in the Schools

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A team of behavioral consultants applied the Behavioral Analytic Consultation to Schools model while working with educators in a public school setting to evaluate and treat elopement behavior of an 11-year-old student with autism spectrum disorder. Assessment conducted by the consultants included interviews, descriptive analysis, preference assessment, trial-based functional analysis of elopement, and a reinforcer analysis conducted using an alternating treatment design. An acceptable behavior intervention was developed in consultation with educational staff and family. Consultants trained educational staff on procedures to implement the intervention and data collection. When intervention components were implemented as designed, the student's elopement in the classroom and out of the school building decreased. This study is an example of a successful application of the Behavioral Analytic Consultation to Schools model where consultants take primary responsibility for the evaluation, and collaborate with educational team members and family members to apply what was learned from the assessment to a successful intervention. The results of this application of the model provide continued support for evaluating the use of the model to improve outcomes for students engaging in severe behavior in public school settings.

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“…The rank-based nonparametric tests used in ANSA, on average, have more power to detect small differences (Siegel, 1957). These tests could prove useful particularly in situations where the problem behavior is very dangerous but occurs at low rates (e.g., pica or elopement; Fisher et al, 1994;Phillips et al, 2018). Moreover, they are also useful for analyzing data that may have outliers-for example, an FA in which one session included bursts of problem behavior that substantially exceeded rates observed in all other sessionsas ranking the data minimizes the impact of outliers.…”

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Application of automated nonparametric statistical analysis in clinical contexts

Kranak

Falligant

Hausman

2020

J of App Behav Analysis

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Functional analyses (FAs) provide clinicians with results upon which they design behavioral treatments. Unfortunately, interrater reliability of visual analysis of FA results can be inconsistent. Accordingly, researchers have designed quantitative metrics and visual aids to supplement visual analysis. Recently, Hall et al. ( 2020) provided a proof of concept for using automated nonparametric statistical analysis (ANSA) to interpret FA data. Their results show promise for ANSA as a supplemental tool. However, they evaluated ANSA with only published FA datasets, which may not be representative of FAs commonly encountered in clinical care. Therefore, the purpose of this replication was to compare ANSA to another validated supplemental aid (i.e., the structured criteria method) and investigate its utility with unpublished clinical FA data. Our results were consistent with Hall et al.'s, indicating ANSA may augment clinical interpretation of FA data. Recommendations for clinical applications of ANSA and future directions for researchers are discussed.

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Assessing and Treating Elopement in a School Setting

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Comparison of naturalistic and arbitrary discriminative stimuli during schedule thinning following functional communication training

Comparison of naturalistic and arbitrary discriminative stimuli during schedule thinning following functional communication training

Applying behavioral analytic consultation to schools to assess and treat a student's elopement

Application of automated nonparametric statistical analysis in clinical contexts

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