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Maintaining Staff Performance Following a Training Intervention: Suggestions from a 30-Year Case Example.

Dennis H Reid¹, Marsha B Parsons², Joyce M Jensen²

¹Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center, P. O. Box 425, Morganton, NC 28680 USA.

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Summary

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Behavior analysts can sustain staff training effects long-term by using a collaborative team approach. This method, involving agency supervisors, ensured participant engagement in functional tasks for 30 years.

Area of Science:

Behavior Analysis
Human Services
Special Education

Background:

Maintaining the effects of staff training interventions is a persistent challenge for behavior analysts in human service settings.

Keywords:

Feedback Maintenance Staff performance

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