You are a BCBA consulting with one of your client’s parents…
You are a BCBA consulting with one of your client’s parents in the home setting. You just began providing services to them and you have observed some of the interactions they have had with their child during intervention implementation. You are including parent training in your services, so you have weekly meetings to debrief with them and discuss topics to improve fidelity and answer any questions. This past week, the parents were implementing extinction procedures for their child that wanted to escape taking a bath. The child screamed and hit until the parents were exhausted, so they let him elope. You explain that the need for consistency in extinction is important. You also tell them that is important to consider their child’s behavior and function, but it is just as important to…