
Clinician guide
How to Assess Direct Contingencies Alongside Rules and Prompts
Assess direct contingencies alongside rules and prompts by recording consequences, instructions, models, feedback, client report, and mixed control.
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Clinician guide
Assess direct contingencies alongside rules and prompts by recording consequences, instructions, models, feedback, client report, and mixed control.

Clinician guide
Calculate a response-versus-nonresponse contingency difference using four raw cells, comparable windows, conditional probabilities, missingness, and causal limits.

Clinician guide
Define and verify a consequence class using the environmental change, source, quality, magnitude, delay, duration, access, delivery, contact, and current value.

Clinician guide
Define a response class for contingency assessment using accessible forms, onset, offset, opportunities, windows, prompts, omissions, invalidity, and agreement.

Clinician guide
Distinguish contingency from temporal contiguity using response and nonresponse windows, consequence probabilities, base rates, timing, history, and limits.

Clinician guide
Define a response-consequence contingency question using a client priority, response and consequence classes, comparison states, timing, history, access, and limits.

Clinician guide
Report motivating-operation results using the operation, consequence, response history, comparison, timing, access, value and behavior data, limits, and decision.

Clinician guide
Reassess motivating operations after changes in pain, sleep, medication, appetite, schedule, access, setting, partner, consequence, or preference.

Clinician guide
Measure motivating operations across sessions using time-stamped operation, consequence, response, access, health, setting, partner, effort, and client-report data.

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Evaluate abolishing effects using a defined consequence, related behavior, access history, comparison, timing, health, competing options, and direct client report.

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Evaluate a reflexive CMO through natural evidence, prevention, communication, accessible exits, health review, stop rules, qualified oversight, and cautious scope.

Clinician guide
Assess a transitive CMO using a blocked activity, needed item, related response, open comparison, learning history, availability cues, access, and ethical limits.