Evaluation of Client Preference for Function‐based Treatment Packages

Hanley, Gregory P.; Piazza, Cathleen C.; Fisher, Wayne W.; Contrucci, Stephanie A.; Maglieri, Kristen A.

doi:10.1901/jaba.1997.30-459

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“…An objective model for addressing questions of efficacy and preference was originally described by Hanley, Piazza, Fisher, Contrucci, and Maglieri (1997) when attempting to identify treatments for the problem behavior of two young children with intellectual disabilities. After learning via functional analysis (Iwata et al, 1982(Iwata et al, /1994) that the two children's aggression and disruption were maintained by adult attention, two functionbased treatments were designed.…”

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“…These results underscore the fact that if treatment options were restricted to those considered nonaversive or positive, the children in this study would have been prescribed treatments that were both ineffective and non-preferred. Taken together, the studies by Hanley et al (1997Hanley et al ( , 2005 suggest that the values guiding the selection of treatment strategies can be data-based. That is, treatment decisions need not be based on the name or structure of the intervention; they can be based on measures of efficacy and child preference.…”

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Toward Effective and Preferred Programming: A Case for the Objective Measurement of Social Validity with Recipients of Behavior-Change Programs

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2010

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The adoption of effective behavioral interventions and teaching strategies for young children is largely influenced by the extent to which stakeholders find the procedures appropriate and the effects important. Stakeholder values have been described by measures of social validity in applied behavior analysis, and these measures have been a part of behavior-analytic research and practice since their important characteristics were described in the late 1970s. The typically subjective nature of the social validation process appears, however, to have marginalized children and other usual recipients of behavior-change procedures (i.e., individuals with autism or intellectual disabilities) from social validation processes. Therefore, the importance of including recipients of behavior-change procedures in the social validation process and methods for doing so are described in this paper. Keywords: Autism, choice, concurrent chains, intellectual disability, preference, recipient inclusion, social validity ABSTRACT T

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Toward Effective and Preferred Programming: A Case for the Objective Measurement of Social Validity with Recipients of Behavior-Change Programs

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2010

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“…Each session was conducted using a modified concurrent-chains procedure (Hanley, Piazza, Fisher, Contrucci, & Maglieri, 1997). That is, each session was divided into two parts called initial and terminal links.…”

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The Effectiveness of and Preschoolers' Preferences for Variations of Multiple‐schedule Arrangements

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2006

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Multiple schedules of reinforcement have been used to teach children to recruit attention only when it is available, thereby minimizing disruptive requesting during instructional activities. This procedure involves alternating periods of continuous reinforcement (CRF) with periods of extinction and correlating each period with a distinct and continuous discriminative stimulus. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of and children's preferences for multiple schedules in which (a) two different stimuli, one correlated with reinforcement (S+) and another correlated with extinction (S2), were presented; (b) only an S+ was presented (i.e., no stimulus was correlated with extinction), and (c) neither an S+ nor an S2 was presented (i.e., a mixed schedule). S+/S2 and S+ arrangements were similarly effective for 7 children, but 3 preferred the S+/S2 condition and 4 preferred the S+ condition. Correlational analyses suggested that children who responded more effectively given the S2 (discrimination indexes were relatively high) preferred the S+/S2 condition, whereas children who responded less effectively given the S2 preferred the S+ condition. The implications of these findings for arranging multiple schedules for social responses are discussed.

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“…Hanley and colleagues, for example, recently compared the effectiveness of FCT with noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) on the multiple behavior problems of 2 children (Hanley, Piazza, Fisher, Contrucci, & Maglieri, 1997). They found that both interventions initially reduced problem behaviors, but that the participants demonstrated a preference for FCT.…”

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Functional Communication Training Using Assistive Devices: Recruiting Natural Communities of Reinforcement

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1999

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We evaluated the effectiveness of functional communication training (FCT) as an intervention for the problem behavior exhibited by 5 students with severe disabilities both in school and in the community. Following an assessment of the function of their problem behavior, the students were taught to use assistive communication devices in school to request the objects and activities that presumably were maintaining their behavior. Multiple baseline data collected across the students indicated that not only did the students use their devices successfully, but the intervention also reduced their problem behavior. In addition, data from community settings showed generalization to untrained community members. These results replicate other successful efforts to use FCT with individuals having limited communication skills, and demonstrate the value of teaching skills to recruit natural communities of reinforcement in order to generalize intervention effects to meaningful nontraining environments.

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Evaluation of Client Preference for Function‐based Treatment Packages

Cited by 176 publications

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Toward Effective and Preferred Programming: A Case for the Objective Measurement of Social Validity with Recipients of Behavior-Change Programs

Toward Effective and Preferred Programming: A Case for the Objective Measurement of Social Validity with Recipients of Behavior-Change Programs

The Effectiveness of and Preschoolers' Preferences for Variations of Multiple‐schedule Arrangements

Functional Communication Training Using Assistive Devices: Recruiting Natural Communities of Reinforcement

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