Toward a further understanding of assent

A review of the concurrent‐chains arrangement to assess intervention choice: 2018–2023

Auten,

Van Camp,

Ferguson

2024

Implementing culturally responsive and trauma‐informed practices with checklists and goal setting

Beaulieu,

Kwak,

Jimenez‐Gomez

et al. 2024

We discuss the use of two empirically validated behavior‐change methods—checklists and goal setting—and designed a checklist to assist behavior analysts in improving their behavioral services to be more culturally responsive and trauma informed. We also present pilot data evaluating the use of the checklist and goal setting on the inclusion of culturally responsive and trauma‐informed practices in behavior support plans designed for students in a public school. The training package was effective for both participants, and the participants' weekly goals corresponded to the observed changes in their behavior plans. Moreover, both participants strongly agreed that the checklist was valuable and easy to use and reported increases in their perceived abilities to implement culturally responsive and trauma‐informed practices posttraining.

Protective procedures in functional analysis of self‐injurious behavior: An updated scoping review

Frank‐Crawford,

Piersma,

Fernandez

et al. 2024

Despite the efficacy of functional analyses in identifying the function of challenging behavior, clinicians report not always using them, partly due to safety concerns. Understanding how researchers employ safeguards to mitigate risks, particularly with dangerous topographies like self‐injurious behavior (SIB), is important to guide research and practice. However, the results of a scoping review of functional analyses of self‐injurious behavior conducted by Weeden et al. (2010) revealed that only 19.83% of publications included protections. We extended the work of Weeden et al. to determine whether reporting has improved. We observed increases in all but two types of protections reviewed by Weeden et al. Additionally, we included new protections not reported by Weeden et al. In total, 69.52% of the studies included at least one protective procedure and 44.39% specified that the protections were used for safety. It appears that reporting has increased since Weeden et al. called for improved descriptions of participant protections.