Instruction in Functional Assessment, 2014a

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Instruction in Functional Assessment Chapter 6 The Case of the Cough! From Watson, T. S., & Sterling, H. E. (1998). Brief functional analysis and treatment of a vocal tic. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 31, 471-474. Client Description & Background: Vivian, a 4-year-old typically developing girl who presented with a 4 month occurrence of a vocal tic in the form of repeated coughing. Just before originally exhibiting the cough, she had a respiratory infection that had since cleared up. She had been seen by her pediatrician who did not find a medical cause for her behavior. Vivian’s parents stated that her cough “was ‘annoying’ and ‘intrusive’ in their conversations” (Watson & Sterling, 1998, p.471). Her coughing generally only occurred during meals. Behavioral definition: “loud barking or metallic sound coming from the mouth” (Watson & Sterling, 1998, p. 471). Parent Interview Questions: When does the behavior occur? What are your reactions to the coughing behavior? What other times or places that the cough occurs? Does it occur when you are out? Is it only certain foods? Does it occur with one parent or both? When she doesn’t want to eat? Do certain things occur during the day associated with its occurrence or nonoccurrence (e.g., school, longer day, daycare, visits)? Parent Interview and functional assessment observational data collected by parents on ABCs during meals, snacks, watching TV in bed, at drawing table, suggested that either attention or tangibles (food items) was being delivered immediately after Vivian’s cough during mealtimes. Procedure: Functional analysis was conducted using a multielement research design with both 5-min conditions occurring each meal. Attention condition: “...one parent made brief comments within 2-5 s after Vivian coughed” (Watson & Sterling, 1998, p. 472). Tangible condition: “...one of the parents immediately presented Vivian with one small Sweet Tart candy (a preferred item, according to the parents) but made no comment contingent upon coughing...“ (Watson & Sterling, 1998, p. 472). 100
Instruction in Functional Assessment Chapter 6 Results: From Watson, T. S., & Sterling, H. E. (1998). Brief functional analysis and treatment of a vocal tic. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 31, 471-474. Permission was granted to reprint the above Figure from the owner of the copyright, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Instructions: 1. Assign your group members one of the following roles: Client, therapist, director (who monitors and provides feedback to the other two performers and queries the audience) 2. Act out the above functional analysis by conducting the procedures for each of the conditions at least once. Reproduce the same outcomes of the effect of the conditions on the client’s behavior as depicted in the above graph. 3. What is the maintaining variable for the problem behavior? 4. Given these results, design an intervention plan for this client. 101
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