Telehealth Training on Functional Behavior Assessment and Brief Treatment Implementation
Document Type
Thesis
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree
M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis
Date Completed
Summer 2023
First Committee Member
Ahearn, William H.
Second Committee Member
Thompson, Rachel H.
Abstract
An important clinical skill is conducting a comprehensive functional assessment that includes developing, conducting, and interpreting a functional analysis. A reported barrier to conducting a functional analysis is limited time and resources (Roscoe et al., 2015). Therefore, identifying efficient training strategies of this process is warranted. The purpose of the current study was to assess the utility of a remote training package that included presenting enhanced instructions and video models of how to conduct a comprehensive functional assessment and brief treatment analysis. Trainee participants included two individuals who worked as teachers at a residential school for individuals with autism. The training task included indirect assessment (implementation and interpretation), functional analysis (implementation and interpretation), and treatment analysis (development and implementation). Conditions included a pre-training baseline (written instruction only) phase with confederate client, training phase with confederate client, and generality assessment with actual client. Inter-observer agreement was calculated by dividing the total number of agreements by the total number of agreements plus disagreement across all tasks; this quotient was then multiplied by 100. IOA was collected in 61% of sessions; with a mean total agreement of 95.3% across sessions for both participants. Training was effective in achieving performance criterion for both participants; however, for one participant, the addition of feedback was necessary.
Recommended Citation
Tan, Ai Jia, "Telehealth Training on Functional Behavior Assessment and Brief Treatment Implementation" (2023). Master’s Theses - College of Arts and Sciences. 292.
https://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/castheses/292
