Welch S J, Holborn S W
University of Manitoba, Canada.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1988 Winter;21(4):357-68. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1988.21-357.
A brief training manual was developed for the purpose of teaching child-care workers to contingency contract with delinquent youths living in residential care facilities. The manual was designed to require minimal supplementary training by a professional. In Experiment 1 a multiple baseline design was used to assess the effect of the manual on 4 child-care workers' contract negotiation and writing behaviors. Experiment 2 consisted of four A-B systematic replications. Behaviors were assessed within the context of analogue training simulations and generalization tests with delinquent youths. Results from the analogue simulations indicated that the manual was successful in increasing both types of behaviors to a level of proficiency that equaled or surpassed that of behaviorally trained graduate students, and results from the generalization tests indicated that the child-care workers were able to apply their newly acquired contracting skills with delinquent youths. Procedural reliability varied across child-care workers, but was usually high.
编写了一本简短的培训手册，目的是教导儿童保育工作者与居住在寄宿照料设施中的违法青少年签订应急合同。该手册旨在要求专业人员进行最少的补充培训。在实验1中，采用多基线设计来评估该手册对4名儿童保育工作者合同谈判和撰写行为的影响。实验2包括四次A-B系统复制。在模拟培训和对违法青少年的泛化测试中评估行为。模拟测试的结果表明，该手册成功地将两种行为提高到了与经过行为训练的研究生相当或更高的熟练水平，泛化测试的结果表明，儿童保育工作者能够将新获得的签约技能应用于违法青少年。程序可靠性在不同的儿童保育工作者中有所不同，但通常较高。
