Brief report: A clinical tracking system for helping see the forest through the trees
✍ Scribed by Orv C. Karan; Susan S. Harrington; Steven F. Broday
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 887 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
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✦ Synopsis
Adults with developmental disabilities who display behavior disorders represent some of our field's biggest challenges. Those who provide direct support for such individuals are sometimes frightened and often frustrated by the occurrence of these behaviors particularly if neither they nor the agencies for whom they work have been successful in alleviating them. Under such circumstances the agency may secure the services of a consultant. At such times the consultant may find it difficult to obtain information [from which to generate plausible hypotheses and design interventional plans] that is not unduIy influenced by the emotions of the moment. This article describes a stop-gap system that can be used under such circumstances to gather and analyze valuable longitudinal behavioral ecological data. The basic assumptions and strategies of this system are explained and illustrated through three case studies.