Behavior analysts work hard to ensure that they have carefully and ethically performed the required tasks to determine an intervention that offers the greatest potential for successfully dealing with a behavior. With most behaviors, interventions can be developed that are reasonable and less stressful for the individual to participate in. But what do you do if the individual is getting physical and injuring themselves or others?
In circumstances like this, potentially problematic interventions need to be considered, such as physically restraining or secluding the individual. When these serious interventions are considered, it is absolutely crucial to evaluate and re-evaluate ethical considerations as painstakingly as possible to ensure that the intervention can be implemented with the lowest risk for negative consequences.
For this Discussion, you will think about a situation involving restraint or another physical management technique, and you will discuss methods for implementing the technique in the most ethical manner possible.
To prepare:
- Review the Learning Resources for this week, including the required weekly media programs, to gain an understanding of restraint and physical management. Note: It will be critical for you to review all the media for this week to complete this Discussion.
- Consider a situation where restraint or physical management was necessary for this Discussion
Post a description of a situation where restraint or physical management was necessary. How can this situation be implemented in the most ethical manner?
Be sure to support your postings with specific references to the Learning Resources and identify current relevant literature to support your work.
Requirements: One Page
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I am also attaching the audio and the transcript for the required media as well.
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Preliminary electronic literature searches were conducted in the Medline
and PsycINFO databases using various combinations of search terms.
PsycINFO proved to be the most productive: a search using the terms
‘mental retardation and self-injurious behaviour and restraint’, limited to
peer review journals, identified 52 papers. Similar combinations substitut-
ing ‘restraint’ with ‘behavioural management’ identified one unpublished
dissertation; substitutions using ‘reactive strategies’ and ‘reactive manage-
ment strategies’ identified no papers. Searches using the terms ‘mental
retardation and autism and self injurious behaviour’ yielded four papers
that were all included in the list of 52 papers previously identified. Sub-
stituting ‘learning disabilities’, ‘intellectual disabilities’, ‘self-harm,’ ‘autistic
spectrum disorder’, ‘triad of social impairment’ and testing different
combinations did not identify any additional papers. In a number of these
papers, restraint was employed as a punitive consequence in a behavioural
intervention rather than as a reactive strategy per se. A total of 34 papers were
finally included in the review[1677 Words]
