Preferred Name

Hannah Lockwood

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3270-6669

Date of Graduation

5-9-2024

Semester of Graduation

Spring

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Department of Graduate Psychology

Advisor(s)

Trevor Stokes

Joshua M. Pulos

Tonya Lambert Delp

Abstract

Modern social skills literature show the use of behavioral skills training (BST) and role-play in social skills instruction in small-group and school-based settings, although there is limited research measuring the effects of components of the BST package in maintaining social behaviors. The purpose of the present study, in response to the work of Kornacki et al. (2013), was to measure the effectiveness of the role-play and feedback components of BST in maintaining social skills. A multiple-baseline design across behaviors was used to measure social skills acquisition across different behavior domains for an adolescent participant with autism spectrum disorder. The participant was given context to a social scenario and was instructed to role-play the interaction with the clinician with no feedback during baseline. The teaching phase used BST (instruction, model, role-play, feedback) to teach appropriate responding. The final phase subtracted instruction and modeling to look for maintenance of the skills when presented with familiar scenarios in role-play format and given feedback/reinforcement. The results of this study contribute to the literature on the use of BST in social skills instruction and the effectiveness of its components in maintaining social behavior.

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