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This 20 page report discusses the study of one four-year-old child’s antisocial biting behaviors, a study of her, and the recommended intervention. Single system with an ABA design is used and evaluated in terms of altering the child’s behaviors. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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or she will need to focus their attention if they are to gain meaningful information upon which to base their actual interventions in a real-life situation. In this exercise, the
use if a single system design with one or two interventions allows for the establishment of a process that allows for one researcher dealing with one issue or study participant
family/individual. Garcia and Floyd (1999) make the point that traditional research and actual practical application rarely result in harmonious or cooperative processes (pp. 451). In fact, they point out that
"traditional group research designs tend to be labor-intensive, expensive, difficult to integrate into the clinical setting" (pp. 451). Therefore, a single system design can bypass such problems because it is
one in which an individual therapist, social worker, psychologist, or other professionals, either as individuals or a team, may: "... produce reliable and valid quantitative data in an efficient manner
that is easy to understand and that directly focuses on individual client change or progress" (pp. 451). Far too often, research has to be based on commonalities that extend
across a relatively broad-spectrum of problems or concerns relating to a group rather than an individual client or patient. For example, a four-year-old girl living in a below poverty household
with both parents is a unique individual, regardless of whether or not she fits into any number of sub-categories based on household income, one parent versus two-parents, ethnicity, and so
on. If an intervention is to be truly effective, it should understand the unique components of the particular child with whom an intervention is being considered regarding a certain behavior
problem. One practitioner dealing with one individual or one family has the opportunity to gain unique insights that may be applicable in other circumstances but are certainly applicable in terms
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