A federal law that requires client privacy rights and establishes rules about the transition/storing of client Protected Health Info (PHI).
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An antecedent intervention used for increasing compliance and reducing escape-maintained behaviors. It involves presenting two-to-five high-probability compliance tasks, reinforcing compliance for those tasks, and then presenting a demand less likely
Presumed, but unobserved processes and subjective ideas that, in mentalism, are used to explain behavior and/or its causes.
A matching-to-sample procedure where clients are taught to match sample and comparison stimuli that are physically identical.
A mand response that has multiple sources of antecedent control (e.g., an MO and a verbal SD, or an MO, a nonverbal SD, and a verbal SD, etc.).
A tact response that has multiple sources of antecedent control (e.g., a verbal and nonverbal SD, etc.).
A reinforcer assessment used to make an in-the-moment determination about potential reinforcers by examining a client’s affect/emotional response (e.g. laughing, smiling, neutral face, frowning, crying, etc.) and noting if there
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A free-operant teaching methodology that takes place in a free-time setting, during which the child’s natural initiations are treated as learning opportunities to expand on the child’s current skill set.
A procedure in which a pre-determined criterion for responding is established for all members of a group, and for an individual to contact reinforcement, that individual must meet the specific
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In an experimental design, this is the particular aspect of the environment manipulated to assess its effects on the target behavior.
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