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ABAI Presentation Resources · Tool 04

Before You Call It Noncompliance

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A context review before interpreting missed practice or attendance.

Presentation companion • Newly written educational practice aid informed by the sources identified below. This is not a validated assessment or a diagnostic instrument. Adapt collaboratively within your training, role, and consented services.

  1. Describe what occurred without labels: which task, when, and under what conditions?
  2. Was the plan explained clearly, modeled, and practiced with feedback?
  3. Ask about time, transportation, materials, language, competing needs, and accessibility.
  4. Check whether the goal matters to the family and whether the procedure feels acceptable.
  5. Invite the caregiver to identify what makes the plan difficult.
  6. Revise one barrier together; measure feasibility and outcomes before making another change.

Conceptual sources: (Taylor et al., 2019; Wilson, 2023). The specific prompts and examples are newly written teaching suggestions, rather than tested protocols from these sources.

Reflection & next step

What did the caregiver identify as most important?

What will we change, who will do it, and when will we review it?

How will we ask whether the change was helpful?

Material credit: Newly written instructional synthesis prepared for PBHC’s presentation resource hub. The wording, prompts, illustrative dialogue, and worksheet layout are presentation materials, not reproduced author or publisher instruments. The cited authors are credited for the underlying concepts. These tools have not been validated; citation does not imply author endorsement.

References

Taylor, B. A., LeBlanc, L. A., & Nosik, M. R. (2019). Compassionate care in behavior analytic treatment: Can outcomes be enhanced by attending to relationships with caregivers? Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(3), 654–666. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-018-00289-3

Wilson, A. N. (2023). The behavior analyst’s guide to working with parents: Acceptance and commitment training for effective parental collaboration in treatment. Context Press. https://www.newharbinger.com/9781648480928/the-behavior-analysts-guide-to-working-with-parents/

Didiana (Didi) De La Osa, BCBA-D · ABAI presentation resource page