Social Change Interventions Research Articles

Some Considerations for Behavior Analysts Developing Social Change Interventions

The importance of a behavior analyst to the maintenance of established behavioral programs has long been recognized . A case example in t he Experimental Living Project at the University of Kansas is discussed, providing an illustration of the degree of involvement that behavior analysts assume in such programs. We p rop ose that the behavior analyst implemented critical but unspecified procedures necessary for maintaining the program. These results, together with similar findings reported by others, indicate that an ongoing program to train indigenous staff to perform specified critical procedures, and an awareness of critical design features of adoptable technology, could improve the maintainability of behavioral programs as the involvement of the behavior analyst is systematically r educed.