| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 288 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Background of social validity -- Conceptualizations of social validity -- Instruments for evaluating social validity -- Research on social validity -- Increasing the social significance of treatment goals -- Enhancing the appropriateness of treatment procedures -- Improving the importance of treatment effects -- Social validity and ethics -- Organization of social validity data -- The future of social validity. |
| Summary |
Applied Behavior Analysis is the science of applying experimentally derived principles of behavior to improve socially significant behavior. The research and application of ABA contributes to a wide range of practical areas, including AIDS prevention, education, gerontology, language acquisition and parenting, and ABA-based interventions have gained particular popularity in the last 20 years related to teaching students with autism spectrum disorders. Social Validity, a concept used in such behavioral intervention research, focuses on whether the goals of treatment, the intervention technique. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Behavior modification.
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Behavior modification -- Evaluation.
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Evaluation research (Social action programs)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carter, Stacy L. Social validity manual. London, UK ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, c2010 9780123748973 (OCoLC)353846397 |
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