Oh, snap! It’s Supervision September! A whole month of episodes dedicated to the art, science, and necessity of effective supervision. We kick off the month with a review of research assessing the utility of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services. Can we really use this tool to identify the function of staff behavior? Is there truly an error correction procedure that we can all agree on? And how the heck do we get freakin’ Mandi to show up on time?

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Articles discussed this episode:

Carr, J.E., Wilder, D.A., Majdalany, L., Mathisen, D., & Strain, L.A. (2013). An assessment-based solution to a human-service employee performance problem. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 6, 16-32. doi: 10.1007/BF03391789

Bowe, M. & Sellers, T.P. (2018). Evaluating the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services to assess incorrect error-correction procedures by preschool paraprofessionals. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 51, 166-176. doi: 1002/jaba.428

Merritt, T.A., DiGennaro Reed, F.D., & Martinez, C.E. (2019). Using the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services to identify an indicated intervention to decrease employee tardiness. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 52, 1034-1048. doi: 10.1002/jaba.643

Wilder, D.A., Cymbal, D., & Villacorta, J. (2020). The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services: A brief review. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 53, 1170-1176. doi: 10.1102/jaba.676

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