Supporting Behavior Analysts in Providing Compassionate Care: The Development of the Parent Partnership Questionnaire...

The demonstration of compassionate care skills by behavior analysts may be integral to establishing successful parent-professional relationships in the delivery of interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Taylor et al. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 654-666, 2018). Behavior analytic tools to determine parents' perceptions of goals, procedures, and outcomes are limited in number and scope (e.g., Kazdin, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 13, 259-273, 1980; Reimers et al., Behavioral Disorders, 18, 67-76, 1992; Witt & Martens, Psychology in the Schools, 20, 510-517, 1983). This study explored the development and testing of an assessment tool to support parent-practitioner collaboration in clinical practice. A comprehensive process was undertaken to develop the Parent Partnership Questionnaire (PPQ). This process involved collecting descriptive data from families, qualitatively analyzing those data, integrating the findings into an assessment tool (PPQ), soliciting feedback on the PPQ, and testing the reliability of the PPQ. Strong intercoder reliability was reported for the PPQ. Further, clinicians were able to administer the tool with good procedural fidelity. This study provides a resource to support clinicians' work with families and potentially advance the integration of compassionate care into services provided by behavior analysts.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40617-023-00827-8.