STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Describe the various medical and psychiatric services.

 II.     Describe and provide examples of the general methodology for an ecobehavioral assessment.

 III.    Identify the objectives of the treatment approach and those components of the model that apply to an adult population.

 IV.     Describe the objectives of self-management skills.

 V.      Describe the differences between psychoactive and psychotropic drugs.

 VI.     Describe and provide examples of treatment approaches.

 VII.    Define principles related to stereotyped behaviors (stereotypies) and how these behaviors are assessed and treated.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Assessing the Nature of Services

         A.      Components of Standard Psychological Services.

         B.      Medical and Psychiatric Services

         C.      Characteristics of Various Living Environments

 II.     Behavior Assessment

         A.      Sources of Motivation for Learned Maladaptive Behavior

         B.      Ecobehavioral Assessment

         C.      Objectives of Treatment Approaches

         D.      Components of Self-Management Skills

 III.    Use of Drugs to Modify Behavior

         A.      Psychoactive and Psychotropic Drugs

         B.      Drug Classifications

         C.      Behavior Impact

 IV.     Self-Injurious Behavior

         A.      Phases of Behavioral Assessment and Analysis

         B.      Treatment Approaches

                 1.      Antecedent strategies

                 2.      Response-contingent strategies

 V.      Assessment and Treatment of Stereotypies

         A.      Indirect Strategies

                 1.      Environmental

                 2.      Training adaptive behavior

                 3.      Differential reinforcement

                 4.      Reinforcer displacement

         B.      Direct Response-decreasing Strategies

                 1.      Extinction

                 2.      Compliance training

                 3.      Sensory extinction

                 4.      Sensory change

                 5.      Response interruption

                 6.      Overcorrection

                 7.      Time-out from positive reinforcement

                 8.      Immobilization

                 9.      Visual and facial screening

                 10.     Punishment

 VI.     Aggression and Psychiatric Disorder