Selecting and Implementing Interventions
Relapse and side-effect mitigation
Plan interventions to reduce unwanted effects of reinforcement, extinction, and punishment and to mitigate relapse of target behavior.
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What this concept means here
Plan interventions to reduce unwanted effects of reinforcement, extinction, and punishment and to mitigate relapse of target behavior.
How it appears in questions
Identify relapse risk after intervention changes.
Best next action
If this concept is weak, practice Selecting and Implementing Interventions scenarios and write one correction rule after each miss.
How this shows up in scenario questions
- 1Identify relapse risk after intervention changes.
- 2Choose mitigation for extinction or punishment side effects.
- 3Plan follow-up when behavior returns.
Common misconceptions
- Assuming reduced behavior can never return.
- Ignoring emotional or elicited effects.
- Using punishment without safeguards.
Distractor patterns
- Declare treatment failure without analyzing context.
- Ignore renewal across settings.
- Escalate intrusiveness before mitigation.
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Related terms
relapseresurgencerenewalside effectsmitigation
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Assessment data suggest a less intrusive plan may address pausing work after corrective feedback, but the team asks for a faster restrictive option. Across 7 sessions in service week 10, one observer recorded 58 minutes of observation in the vocational training room. The BCBA should:
Mitigating relapse of target behavior: Relapse and side-effect mitigation.
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Mitigating relapse of target behavior: Relapse and side-effect mitigation.
Assessment data suggest a less intrusive plan may address calling out during independent work, but the team asks for a faster restrictive option. Across 5 sessions in service week 31, 2 observers recorded 31 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should:
Mitigating relapse of target behavior: Relapse and side-effect mitigation.
Assessment data suggest a less intrusive plan may address pausing work after corrective feedback, but the team asks for a faster restrictive option. Across 5 sessions in service week 39, one observer recorded 17 minutes of observation in the vocational training room. The BCBA should:
Mitigating relapse of target behavior: Relapse and side-effect mitigation.
Assessment data suggest a less intrusive plan may address calling out during independent work, but the team asks for a faster restrictive option. Across 7 sessions in service week 44, 2 observers recorded 22 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should:
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