A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People: Diversity-Affirming Evidence-Based Practice

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. Presents a detailed description of the diversity-affirming evidence-based practice decision-making modelOffers a framework that helps practitioners integrate the best available evidence with client values and contextDemonstrates how to culturally adapt interventions and center decision-making on the clientGuides practitioners through the process of assessing intervention outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variablesProvides numerous concrete examples involving Autistic people holding many intersecting identities INDICE: Section I: Evidence-based practice as a treatment selection model.1. A brief overview2. Ethics and evidence-based practiceSection II: Sources and strength of evidence3. Evidence: Critically evaluating outcomes of single-subject research design studies4. Systematic reviews5. Alternate sources of evidence6. Overestimating or underestimating evidence in behavior analysisSection III: Social Validity and Initial Intervention Selection7. Three dimensions of social validity8. Social validity and your client9. Social validity and interested partiesSection IV: Professional Judgment10. Research alone is not the answer11. Consensus-building without marginalizing Autistic clients12. Initial intervention selection13. Progress monitoring14. What next?Section V: Conclusions15. Putting it all together for ethical service delivery

• ISBN: 978-0-443-15632-8
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 275
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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