Behavior Case Study Summary

Focus: Loshane’s family will assist Loshane with the ability to establish and demonstrate healthy, meaningful relationships to transition to adulthood. Ms. Smalls (MHS) and Mrs. and Ms. Blakeney (MHS) and Loshane Treatment Plan Summary.

The client, Mrs Freeman has been a drinker for 15 years and she currently drinks a fifth of Vodka a day and a six pack of beer. She is the mother of three girls and three boys. She has developed health issues related to her long term drinking habit. Mrs. Freeman wants to quit drinking for her own health and the health of her children.

“That night, as usually I go to Aibileen’s. I tell her about the deadline of only ten days, and she looks like she might cry.”(418)

*Since Week 1 was unsuccessful in going to sleep around that specific goal time I changed my project by pushing my sleep goals back 30 minutes for the remaining 4 weeks.

Behavior Progress: Since the last court review, Darnell has continued to participate in all aspect of the program with some difficulty. Darnell acquire 4 prompts for: not following instructions (1), horseplay (1), inappropriate comment (1) and disrespect towards staff (1).

Reporting party (RP) stated that her son Hudson Satterfield (DOB: 06/02/15) attended the daycare since August 2015 through June 2016 (RP is a teacher so the child remained at home during summer months). Since the child's return to the facility in January of 2016, he has returned home with scratches on his face, neck, arms and near his eyes on a daily basis. RP was told by staff that Hudson was being retaliated against by the other children because Hudson had been grabbing on the other children. RP reported this to the administrator and inquired why they were not informed of Hudson's behavior (RP has only received 3 incident reports). On 1/31/17, RP's was contacted and informed of an incident where the child was scratched. RP stated that staff

Three subtests were administered: Word association, Phonological Awareness, Rapid Automatic Naming, and the memory subtests. According to the Word Association, Bernie met the criterion with a score of 19. In the area of Phonological Awareness, he did not meet criterion. Several attempts were made to complete the Rapid Automatic Naming subtest with no success; however, administration will be attempted at a later date. Bernie obtained a score of 77 with a percentile rank of 6 in the Working Memory, indicating a low range in his performance .

Thank you for your considering my application to the Applied Behavior analysis program. For all of my life I have known that I was going to help people. It could be said that it is in my DNA. I just never suspected what the capacity would be. On December 15thI graduated from Albright college, I began working at Melmark on December 16th. My first thought, on that first day was “Oh no, I can’t do this, I need to quit” That was over two years ago, and I have gone to work every day, with a smile on my face. While working at my first position, out of college, I discovered my passion. My passion, I find, is working with children and adults with autism and with people who suffer from addiction. Watching the smiles on their faces, the determination when they work to complete a goal, and just the progress makes every hardship worth it, I love it. Each day, in my position as an ABA, I run behavior support plans, IEPs, teaching plans and other protocols, and each day I truly wish that I could have contributed to these plans, protocols, and IEPs. I ponder the recommendations that I could come up with, I wonder that if I had been able to participate in these conversations to create these plans could I have brought something else to the table, a different viewpoint. Affecting the way that the plans are written and in turn ran, I feel that I could make a big difference in the lives of the children and their families also. Every two weeks each child’s team meets to discuss his or her

In this essay I will be researching into what challenging behaviour is and I will be examining Freud’s and Piaget’s approach which in my opinion helps you to understand challenging behaviour. Additionally I will be discussing both internal and external factors which can contribute to challenging behaviour.

My primary goal for the Follow-Up Period of the Behavior Reduction Exercise was to maintain my elimination of added (unnatural) sugars from my diet. I decided to continue the length of the reduction exercise through Lent in the hopes that this exercise can facilitate acquiring a lifestyle change. In other words, by continuing the length of this exercise, this behavior or restraint will establish healthier eating habits, because added sugars had become such an unhealthy part of my diet, and this healthy habit will hopefully assist me in establishing a permanent lifestyle change. I also continued to try to adjust my alternative coping behaviors by adopting the practice of meditation when I am stress (instead of nail biting or eating chocolate).

4. Why it is important to you to study this discipline in a school that emphasizes cultural awareness, competence, and understanding of diversity (see our Commitment to Diversity Statement).

Are you the type of person who wants to be able to go to work everyday doing something you love, helping others who need it, and getting a smile on your face just by the smallest of things that someone does? That is the type of person I am, which is why I chose the career path of a Behavior Specialist. A Behavior Specialist is someone who works with a person who may have a disability, and they study and work with them to make things as easy as possible for their daily life. They focus on the perception of life, however sometimes hesitate to present the strong conclusions how behaviors cause certain emotion (Thompson). A Behavior Specialist is also known as a Social Psychologist, because they study how a person’s mental life and behavior are shaped by interactions with other people (“Pardon Our Interruption”). The four main behaviors that Behavior Specialists look for when studying the actions of a person are, “Self-awareness, emotion, motivation, and feelings” (“Modeling the Early Human Mind”). Although I believe being a Behavior Specialist is a dream job, there are always issues that go along with any job, in this case emotions play a role in the occupation working with people who need extra help.

- Moving home , children will show inappropriate behaviour if they move home, because they have

lives with is grandparents, parents and one younger sister. Grandparents speak Spanish. Parents and children speak Spanish and English. had been ill frequently during first grade and missed a number of days of school. Parents indicated enjoys school.

When individuals do not have access to the things they want, or when they have to experience delays to that access, they may engage in problem behavior. Various applied research reports on methods to either thin the schedule of reinforcement or to increase the delay following the response have noted increases in problem behavior (e.g. Fisher, Thompson, Hagopian, Bowman & Frug, 2000, Hagopain, Tooe, Long Bowman & Lieving, 2004, Hanley, Iwata & Thompson, 2001; Volkert, Lerman Call & Trosclair-Lasserre, 2009). These increases in problem behavior can be described through extinction-induced resurgence, defined as the recurrence of previously reinforced behavior when another behavior is placed on extinction (Lieving, Hagopain, Long & O’Connor, 2004).