Let’s Try to Make Life Better

The BA wants to get started with the crisis protocol as quickly as possible but has a full schedule this week. She decides to ask the trainee she supervises to train the staff in its implementation. The trainee observed the BA do staff training once but has no additional experience, and the BA will not be present for the training sessions.

Following the assessment, the BA begins to develop a treatment plan for attention-maintained behavior. The BA has had success using time-out with other clients so he adds it to this plan as well.

A behavior analyst is eager to get started with an adult client in a residential setting who is engaging in behavioral escalations at home. She starts arranging for a trial-based functional analysis before meeting with the consumer’s custodian/caregiver.

The behavior analyst puts a lock on the refrigerator at school to prevent the student from taking and eating frozen food when upset, which is also a big problem at home.

A behavior analyst just accepted a position at a new agency and wants to dazzle his new supervisor. He makes arrangements to conduct multiple assessments. The assessments will take four weeks to complete and some of the assessments are not indicated by the referral.

Since the new treatment plan began one week ago, the client has been perseverating on the food reinforcers. The parent has also complained about the increase in food requests at home. The BA decides to make some changes to the reinforcement schedule so that there are only two food reinforcers per day.