Evaluating behavioral skills training with parents to implement a paired-stimulus preference assessment

Document Type

Thesis

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Degree

M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis

Date Completed

2021

First Committee Member

Johnson, Cammarie

Second Committee Member

Karsina, Allen

Third Committee Member

Henley, Amy

Abstract

"Parent training is instrumental in ensuring that children's behavior change will generalize and maintain. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of behavioral skills training (BST) to teach parents and caregivers a variety of behavior change protocols, including stimulus preference assessments. A stimulus preference assessment identifies preferred stimuli for an individual that can then be used as potential reinforcers for appropriate behavior. The purpose of the current investigation was to implement BST via telehealth (due to COVID 19) in a multiple baseline design across two parents of two children with autism via Zoom to implement a paired stimulus (PS) preference assessment. results indicated that the training was effective in improving parents' implementation of PS preference assessments. A social validity survey completed by the parent participants at the end of the study indicated that parents found the training procedures acceptable and were satisfied with the results of the PSPA."

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