As a clinician you will use the obtained data to make decisions about the intervention.

As a clinician you will use the obtained data to make decisions about the intervention. Based on your data it may be appropriate to continue the intervention, modify the intervention, change the intervention, or fade the intervention. Using the information from “Learning Activity: Graphing” provide the next steps that you would take as a clinician for each of your participants.

Step 1:

Was the intervention effective for each participant? Provide a rationale. Make sure that you discuss the adequacy of the number of data points in each phase, level, trend, variability, consistency, immediacy of change, overlap, basic effects, and functional relationships for each participant.

Step 2:

Throughout the intervention, you systematically monitored treatment integrity. Your mean treatment integrity scores for each participant were as follows: Participant 1 (87%), Participant 2 (97%), Participant 3 (52%), and Participant 4 (92%). If treatment integrity was inadequate, provide the next steps.

Step 3:

Should the intervention(s) be modified, changed, or kept the same?

Modification: If the intervention will be modified, describe the modification. In other words, what intervention or intervention components will be implemented (e.g., increased schedule of reinforcement, adding a treatment component)? Keep in mind that a modification is different from changing the intervention.

Changing the Intervention: If the intervention should be completely changed (i.e., you will you scrap this intervention and start from scratch with something else) describe what will be changed (e.g., what intervention will be implemented instead?) and why a change is necessary. Keep in mind that a change is different from a modification.

No changes: If no changes are necessary, provide a rationale. NOTE: It’s possible that one or more participants do not require any modifications or changes. If the intervention is ready to fade you will discuss that in the next question.

Make sure that you are using the obtained data to guide your decisions.

Step 5:

Should the intervention(s) remain in place? Often an intervention cannot remain in place indefinitely. Describe the plan to fade the intervention.

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2 Points: Responses have no grammatical errors and APA format is correct.

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