Coordinating the Treatment Process among Various Disciplines

Abstract

(from the introduction) because behavioral treatment often involves the active participation of other professionals, coordinating the efforts of various specialties is crucial for optimizing treatment / describes how such coordination can be achieved / in specifying changes in professional roles, the authors begin with a description of recent changes in treatment goals / discuss the changing role of behavior analysts in providing treatment, which has evolved from intervening directly with client behavior to acting as behavioral consultants to various personnel who will carry out the procedures / describe . . . procedures for training parents, school personnel, residential staff, peers, and the clients / discuss the issue of coordinating the efforts of different professionals in order to establish a team effort (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)