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Educating Learners with Severe and Dangerous

Behaviors: Ethical Considerations

Jose A. Martinez-Diaz, Ph.D., BCBA-D Florida Institute of Technology

ABA Technologies, Inc.

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Outline   The Bottom Line for this topic   Two Most Important Ethical Considerations   Best-Practice Assessment Methods   Importance of identifying…   Best-Practice Treatment Procedures   Case Scenarios illustrating these concepts

as tied to ethical issues


First - The Bottom Line from an Ethical Point of View

  To educate learners with severe and dangerous behaviors, one MUST:

  Use the assessment and treatment procedures most likely to be effective

  Based on the individual student   Based on the research literature   Evaluated systematically for the student


CONTENT AREA 1: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  1-8 Use the most effective assessment and behavior change procedures within applicable ethical standards taking into consideration the guideline of minimal intrusiveness of the procedure to the client.



CONTENT AREA 1: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  1-12 Give preference to assessment and intervention methods that have been scientifically validated, and use scientific methods to evaluate those that have not yet been scientifically validated.


Best-Practice Assessment Methods

  Descriptive Assessment   A-B Functional Analysis   A-B-C Functional Analysis   Use More than One Method   Look for convergence   Do NOT rely on “Tell Me” Methods


Assessment: Importance of identifying:

 Functional response class or classes  Response class hierarchies


Assessment: Importance of identifying:

  Contextual variables   Motivating operations   Discriminative stimuli   Maintaining consequences   Reinforcer Quality (Preference Assessment)   Simple and Combined Schedules of

reinforcement   Other variables: History, response effort



Take into account the Matching Law


Concurrent Discriminated Operants

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SD → R → SR+,R-,P+,P-

SD → R → SR+,R-,P+,P-

SD → R → SR+,R-,P+,P-

SD → R → SR+,R-,P+,P-

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Choices, choices, so many choices…


Best-Practice Treatment Procedures


Best-Practice Function-Based Treatment Procedures   Functional Communication Training (FCT)   Manipulate Motivating Operations   Extinction Procedures   Differential Reinforcement Procedures   Time-Contingent Schedules   Stimulus fading   Medical Tx for biological conditions



And Now…

 Case Scenarios illustrating these concepts as tied to ethical issues.

The Story of Bobby, his Meowing, the Flickering Lights,

and the Blindfold

An Example of Response Hierarchies, MO’s, etc.

The Story of Darren and the Goon Squad vs. our Team

The Story of Danica and our “B Mod Squad”



  The Story of the New School Behavior Analyst, her many referrals for FA & IBPs, and her Boss



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