Full Description
A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.
Contents
Section I: Evidence-based practice as a treatment selection model.
1. A brief overview
2. Ethics and evidence-based practice
Section II: Sources and strength of evidence
3. Evidence: Critically evaluating outcomes of single-subject research design studies
4. Systematic reviews
5. Alternate sources of evidence
6. Overestimating or underestimating evidence in behavior analysis
Section III: Social Validity and Initial Intervention Selection
7. Three dimensions of social validity
8. Social validity and your client
9. Social validity and interested parties
Section IV: Professional Judgment
10. Research alone is not the answer
11. Consensus-building without marginalizing Autistic clients
12. Initial intervention selection
13. Progress monitoring
14. What next?
Section V: Conclusions
15. Putting it all together for ethical service delivery
