IVc714 Intervention and Behavior Program Implementation

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.7. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kateřina Chrapková (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Maštenová (lecturer)
Mgr. Ivana Trellová (lecturer)
Bc. Matúš Mader (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Lenka Gajzlerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim is to introduce to candidates ways of selecting interventions based on scientific evidence, the method of monitoring and supervising individual programs. The training also includes practical skills training.
The course focuses on necessary practical skills in compiling and implementing behavioral intervention programs for patients/clients. Emphasis follows the steps that the behavioral analyst performs to develop new functional behaviors for the patient/client to help him/her improve his/her quality of life. The course develops the practical skills of the course participants to create individual behavioral intervention plans and their use in the patient's/client's natural environment. Emphasis follows the mastering of basic techniques in intensive learning and learning in the natural environment, including prompting, shaping, differentiated reinforcement, implementation of various reinforcement schedules and specialized applied behavioral analysis techniques that focus on the development of verbal operants.
The aim is also to prepare participants for the role of a professional who leads a professionally younger and less experienced colleague, evaluates and monitors the success of the behavioral intervention and continuously adapts its course based on the results achieved and changes in patient/client behavior.
Learning outcomes
The graduate of the course can elaborate a behavioral intervention plan, knows theoretically and performs practical procedures for discriminatory training and transfer of stimulus control, knows in depth and performs various prompting techniques (assist with task execution), behavior shaping and chaining techniques. He/she can perform advanced antecedent interventions, know theoretically and practically how to implement differentiated strengthening and extinction techniques, and can use advanced methods and protocols to reduce problem behavior. He/she can convey the above procedures to behavioral technicians and possibly other stakeholders. He oversees its flawless implementation.
Syllabus
  • Definition of potential interventions and choice of appropriate intervention, procedural integrity, creation and management of behavioral intervention program
  • Professional supervision and supervision of behavioral program
  • Basic procedures for learning skills and acquiring new repertoires of behavior, including practical training
  • Learning in the natural environment of the patient/client
  • Basic procedures for intensive learning
  • Techniques of discriminatory training and transfer of stimulus control including practical training
  • Techniques of prompting (assist with task execution) including practical training
  • Techniques for shaping and chaining behavior including practical training
  • Methods of antecedent intervention
  • Methods of differentiated strengthening and extinction
  • Basic procedures for reduction of problem behavior including practical training
Teaching methods
seminar, discussion
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 45 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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