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Assessing the Clinical or Applied Importance of Behavior Change through Social Validation

Kazdin, Alan E.·1977·Behavior Modification
DOI 10.1177/014544557714001
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Applied behavior analysis has emphasized that the effects of treatment interventions should be evaluated in part on the basis of whether changes of clinical, social, or applied importance have been achieved. Recently, social validation has been proposed as a means of evaluating whether behavior changes achieved during treatment are clinically important. In the context of evaluating treatment outcome, social validation consists of two procedures. First, the behavior of the target subject is compared with that of his or her peers who have not been identified as problematic. Second, subjective evaluations of the target subject's behavior by individuals in the natural environment are solicited. Behavior changes can be viewed as clinically important if the intervention has brought the client's performance within the range of socially acceptable levels, as evidenced by the client's peer group, or if the client's behavior is judged by others as reflecting a qualitative improvement on global ratings. The present paper reviews the literature on social validation in applied behavior analysis and discusses problems in assessing and interpreting normative data and subjective evaluations.

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Authors
Kazdin, A. E.
Affiliations
Pennsylvania State University (US)
Corresponding author
Kazdin, Alan E.
ORCID
Kazdin, Alan E.
Venue
Behavior Modification
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1977-10
Volume
1
Issue
4
Pages
427-452
ISSN
  • 0145-4455 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-4167
DOI
10.1177/014544557714001
OpenAlex
W1977842618
Cited by
1,117
References
58
Citations by year
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FWCI
34.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Behavior Modification (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
social validation, clinical significance, applied behavior analysis, treatment outcome assessment, peer comparison, reference values, subjective evaluation, global ratings, behavior change

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