ABA Psychology: BST approach, TCO6 Skills assessment
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| Supervisor: | Rating Scale: | |
| Date first assessed: | 0 - cannot identify term/skill | |
| Individual being supervised: | 1 - has taken course work on this skill/responsibility/ principle | |
| Certification being sought: | 2 - can verbally define and give examples of the skill/responsibility/ principle | |
| 3 - can display skill/responsibility /principle across multiple clients and situations | ||
| Instructions: Please mark each item with either a 0,1,2 or 3 based on rating scale | ||
| Section 1: Foundations | ||
| A | Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations | Rating |
| A.1 | Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description, prediction, control). | |
| A.2 | Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism). | |
| A.3 | Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism. | |
| A.4 | Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis. | |
| A.5 | Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis. | |
| B | Concepts and Principles | Rating |
| B.1 | Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class. | |
| B.2 | Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class | |
| B.3 | Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning. | |
| B.4 | Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies. | |
| B.5 | Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies. | |
| B.6 | Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies. | |
| B.7 | Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers. | |
| B.8 | Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized punishers. | |
| B.9 | Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement. | |
| B.10 | Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed, and chained schedules of reinforcement | |
| B.11 | Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent extinction as operations and processes. | |
| B.12 | Identify examples of stimulus control. | |
| B.13 | Identify examples of stimulus discrimination. | |
| B.14 | Identify and distinguish between stimulus and response generalization. | |
| B.15 | Identify examples of response maintenance. | |
| B.16 | Identify examples of motivating operations. | |
| B.17 | Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control. | |
| B.18 | Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior. | |
| B.19 | Identify and distinguish among verbal operants | |
| B.20 | Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior | |
| B.21 | Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance. | |
| B.22 | Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to understand response persistence. | |
| B.23 | Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret response allocation. | |
| B.24 | Identify and distinguish between imitation and observational learning. | |
| C | Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation | Rating |
| C.1 | Create operational definitions of behavior | |
| C.2 | Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior. | |
| C.3 | Measure occurrence. | |
| C.4 | Measure temporal dimensions of behavior (e.g., duration, latency, interresponse time) | |
| C.5 | Distinguish between continuous and discontinuous measurement procedures. | |
| C.6 | Design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures (e.g., interval recording, time sampling). | |
| C.7 | Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit analysis, training duration). | |
| C.8 | Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures. | |
| C.9 | Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative data that accounts for the critical dimension of the behavior and environmental constraints. | |
| C.10 | Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations (e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records). | |
| C.11 | Interpret graphed data. | |
| C.12 | Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative procedural integrity data that accounts for relevant dimensions (e.g., accuracy, dosage) and environmental constraints. | |
| D | Experimental Design | Rating |
| D.1 | Distinguish between dependent and independent variables | |
| D.2 | Distinguish between internal and external validity | |
| D.3 | Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation). | |
| D.4 | Identify the defining features of single-case experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication). | |
| D.5 | Identify the relative strengths of single-case experimental designs and group designs. | |
| D.6 | Critique and interpret data from single-case experimental designs. | |
| D.7 | Distinguish among reversal, multiple-baseline, multielement, and changing-criterion designs. | |
| D.8 | Identify rationales for conducting comparative, component, and parametric analyses. | |
| D.9 | Apply single-case experimental designs. | |
| Section 2: Applications | ||
| E | Ethical and Professional Issues | Rating |
| E.1 | Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity). | |
| E.2 | Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession as a result of engaging in unethical behavior | |
| E.3 | Develop and maintain competence by engaging in professional development activities (e.g., read literature, seek consultation, establish mentors). | |
| E.4 | Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing confidential information. | |
| E.5 | Identify and comply with requirements for making public statements about professional activities (e.g., social media activity; misrepresentation of professional credentials, behavior analysis, and service outcomes). | |
| E.6 | Identify the conditions under which services or supervision should be discontinued and apply steps that should be taken when transitioning clients and supervisees to another professional. | |
| E.7 | Identify types of and risks associated with multiple relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they are unavoidable. | |
| E.8 | Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking input, collaborating) to establish and maintain professional relationships. | |
| E.9 | Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and professional relationships. | |
| E.10 | Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and supervision activities. | |
| E.11 | Identify personal biases and how they might interfere with professional activity. | |
| E.12 | Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding, certification) relevant to the delivery of behavioranalytic services. | |
| F | Behavior Assessment | Rating |
| F.1 | Identify relevant sources of information in records (e.g., educational, medical, historical) at the outset of the case | |
| F.2 | Identify and integrate relevant cultural variables in the assessment process. | |
| F.3 | Design and evaluate assessments of relevant skill strengths and areas of need. | |
| F.4 | Design and evaluate preference assessments. | |
| F.5 | Design and evaluate descriptive assessments. | |
| F.6 | Design and evaluate functional analyses. | |
| F.7 | Interpret assessment data to determine the need for behavior-analytic services and/or referral to others. | |
| F.8 | Interpret assessment data to identify and prioritize socially significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive behavior-change procedures and goals. | |
| G | Behavior-Change Procedures | Rating |
| G.1 | Design and evaluate positive and negative reinforcement procedures. | |
| G.2 | Design and evaluate differential reinforcement (e.g., DRA, DRO, DRL, DRH) procedures with and without extinction. | |
| G.3 | Design and evaluate time-based reinforcement (e.g., fixedtime) schedules. | |
| G.4 | Identify procedures to establish and use conditioned reinforcers (e.g., token economies). | |
| G.5 | Incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli into behavior-change procedures | |
| G.6 | Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and conditional discriminations. | |
| G.7 | Select and evaluate stimulus and response prompting procedures (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most). | |
| G.8 | Design and implement procedures to fade stimulus and response prompts (e.g., prompt delay, stimulus fading). | |
| G.9 | Design and evaluate modeling procedures. | |
| G.10 | Design and evaluate instructions and rules | |
| G.11 | Shape dimensions of behavior. | |
| G.12 | Select and implement chaining procedures | |
| G.13 | Design and evaluate trial-based and freeoperant procedures. | |
| G.14 | Design and evaluate group contingencies. | |
| G.15 | Design and evaluate procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization. | |
| G.16 | Design and evaluate procedures to maintain desired behavior change following intervention (e.g., schedule thinning, transferring to naturally occurring reinforcers). | |
| G.17 | Design and evaluate positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection). | |
| G.18 | Evaluate emotional and elicited effects of behaviorchange procedures. | |
| G.19 | Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance. | |
| H | Selecting and Implementing Interventions | Rating |
| H.1 | Develop intervention goals in observable and measurable terms | |
| H.2 | Identify and recommend interventions based on assessment results, scientific evidence, client preferences, and contextual fit (e.g., expertise required for implementation, cultural variables, environmental resources). | |
| H.3 | Select socially valid alternative behavior to be established or increased when a target behavior is to be decreased. | |
| H.4 | Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible unwanted effects when using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures. | |
| H.5 | Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible relapse of the target behavior. | |
| H.6 | Make data-based decisions about procedural integrity. | |
| H.7 | Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the intervention and the need for modification. | |
| H.8 | Collaborate with others to support and enhance client services. | |
| I | Personnel Supervision and Management | Rating |
| I.1 | Identify the benefits of using behavior-analytic supervision (e.g., improved client outcomes, improved staff performance and retention). | |
| I.2 | Identify and apply strategies for establishing effective supervisory relationships (e.g., executing supervisorsupervisee contracts, establishing clear expectations, giving and accepting feedback). | |
| I.3 | Identify and implement methods that promote equity in supervision practices. | |
| I.4 | Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills, cultural variables, and the environment. | |
| I.5 | Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally responsive performance management procedures (e.g., modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification, manipulation of response effort). | |
| I.6 | Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior. | |
| I.7 | Make data-based decisions about the efficacy of supervisory practices. |
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PS 564: Clincal Applications, Supervision, & Management