Author Question: Explain the benefits of including client, family, and/or staff in the goal determination process. ... (Read 56 times)

robinn137 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Explain the benefits of including client, family, and/or staff in the goal determination process.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Discuss the importance of replacement behavior when reducing or eliminating target behavior.

What will be an ideal response?

trampas · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Including clients, family, and/or staff in the goal determination process can minimize and resolve conflicts in the priorities of different stakeholders. Active participation can avoid and resolve goal conflicts by increasing communication and awareness of assessment outcomes. A process that allows each participant to provide input on the merits of potential goals or target behavior can often result.

Answer to Question 2

If a problem behavior is to be eliminated or reduced, the practitioner must identify an adaptive replacement behavior and develop contingencies in the intervention plan to ensure the new behavior is learned. This is important because problem behavior serves a function for the client and to eliminate the behavior without replacing it means that access to reinforcement or escape from punishers will be denied.