راهنمای اعتبار اجتماعی: راهنمای ارزیابی ذهنی مداخلات رفتاری در تحلیل رفتار کاربردی

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 techniques used and the outcomes achieved are acceptable, relevant, and useful to the individual in treatment. Judgments are made (often via clinical trials) about the effects of the intervention based on statistical significance and magnitude of effect. Essentially, social validity alerts us as to whether or not the ABA-based intervention has had a palpable impact and actually helped people in ways that are evident in everyday life. This clinical research volume offers a detailed evaluation of the extant findings on Social Validity, as well as discussion of newly emerging factors which reemphasize the need for well-developed methods of examining SV. Basic conceptualizations, measurement, research findings, applications, ethics, and future implications are discussed in full, and novel recommendations relating back to clinical treatment are provided. The volume will give readers a firm understanding of the general concept of SV, help them become familiar with the research methods and findings, and teach them how to establish and evaluate the Social Validity of individual interventions and treatment programs. Consolidates literature broadly distributed across journals and book chapters into single source Provides discussion of SV in greater depth and breadth than is found in other sources, which generally just focus on general conceptualization and broad research findings Describes how concept of SV can be influential in numerous areas of clinical practice 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 techniques used and the outcomes achieved are acceptable, relevant, and useful to the individual in treatment. Judgments are made (often via clinical trials) about the effects of the intervention based on statistical significance and magnitude of effect. Essentially, social validity alerts us as to whether or not the ABA-based intervention has had a palpable impact and actually helped people in ways that are evident in everyday life.

This clinical research volume offers a detailed evaluation of the extant findings on Social Validity, as well as discussion of newly emerging factors which reemphasize the need for well-developed methods of examining SV. Basic conceptualizations, measurement, research findings, applications, ethics, and future implications are discussed in full, and novel recommendations relating back to clinical treatment are provided. The volume will give readers a firm understanding of the general concept of SV, help them become familiar with the research methods and findings, and teach them how to establish and evaluate the Social Validity of individual interventions and treatment programs.

Consolidates literature broadly distributed across journals and book chapters into single source

Provides discussion of SV in greater depth and breadth than is found in other sources, which generally just focus on general conceptualization and broad research findings

Describes how concept of SV can be influential in numerous areas of clinical practice

Content: Copyright , Page iv Dedication , Page v List of Figures , Page xiii List of Tables , Pages xv-xvi Preface , Pages xvii-xix Chapter 1 - Background of Social Validity , Pages 1-20 Chapter 2 - Conceptualizations of Social Validity , Pages 21-36 Chapter 3 - Instruments for Evaluating Social Validity , Pages 37-67 Chapter 4 - Research on Social Validity , Pages 69-106 Chapter 5 - Increasing the Social Significance of Treatment Goals , Pages 107-140 Chapter 6 - Enhancing the Appropriateness of Treatment Procedures , Pages 141-174 Chapter 7 - Improving the Importance of Treatment Effects , Pages 175-208 Chapter 8 - Social Validity and Ethics , Pages 209-224 Chapter 9 - Organization of Social Validity Data , Pages 225-245 Chapter 10 - The Future of Social Validity , Pages 247-262 References , Pages 263-282 Index , Pages 283-288