A comparison of methods for assessing child compliance during behavioral parent training |
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Authors: | Thomas P O'Brien Karen S Budd |
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Institution: | (1) Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 42nd and Dewey, 68105 Omaha, Nebraska |
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Abstract: | The purpose of the present study was to compare four methods of computing child compliance to parental instructions. Four noncompliant boys, ages 2.5 to 7 years, participated with their mothers in behavioral parent training. In order to evaluate the training, observers recorded the boys' compliance responses in continuous 10-sec intervals. The boys' rates of compliant responding were then computed by considering behavior (A) only in the first interval following the instruction, (B) in the first three intervals following the instruction, (C) in all intervals while the instruction was ongoing, and (D) only in the final interval of the instructional trial. The findings indicated that the first three methods were correlated strongly with each other, although there were occasional differences in the levels of compliance indicated by these three methods. The implications of the findings and the merits of each of the four methods are discussed. |
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Keywords: | parent training child management noncompliant behavior instruction giving |
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