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Brief report: A clinical tracking system for helping see the forest through the trees
Author(s) -
Karan Orv C.,
Harrington Susan S.,
Broday Steven F.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.2360080304
Subject(s) - psychology , tracking (education) , agency (philosophy) , field (mathematics) , moment (physics) , work (physics) , control (management) , applied psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , pedagogy , sociology , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , classical mechanics , pure mathematics
Adults with developmental disabilities who display behavior disorders repressent 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 parrticularly 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 diffcult to obtain information [from which to generate plausible hypothese and design interventionl plans] that is not unduly influenced by the emotions of the moment. This article describes a stop‐gap system that can be used under such circumstsances to gather and analyze valuable longitudinal behavioual ecological data. The basic assumptions and strategies of this system are explained and illustrated through three case studies.