The Acceptability of Treatment Interventions and Social Validity Measures

Course overview

Applied behavior analysis (ABA)-based treatment interventions are designed to affect the lives of not only the individual that is receiving the treatment (i.e., service recipient), but also their family and community (i.e., stakeholders). While these treatment interventions are considered both technical and scientific in nature, the basis behind ABA-based interventions is that they are human-centered and socially embedded procedures. Social validity is considered to be a vital aspect of ABA-based treatment interventions. In this course, participants will learn (1) different variables that influence treatment acceptability, (2) different social validity measures that can be integrated into treatment interventions, (3) various indicators of treatment feasibility, and (4) be provided with an overview of how to get various systems to accept treatment interventions.