Episode 299 - Collaborative Problem Solving

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Despite living more solidly in the psychology domain, Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) as a treatment for oppositional behaviors is increasingly moving into the mainstream. But does its attempts to change behavior patterns make it behavior analytic or something else? In this episode we look at a few of the earliest studies to evaluate the efficacy of CPS as well as some of the more recent publications on CPS as a treatment for challenging behavior and to discuss just what it is and whether you should be paying attention. But will we answer the key question: Is studying CPS an avenue of collaboration between behavior analysis and psychology or a watered-down version of older behavioral treatments?

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Articles discussed this episode:

Greene, R.W., Ablon, J.S., & Goring, J.C. (2003). A transactional model of oppositional behavior: Underpinnings of the Collaborative Problem Solving approach. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 55, 67-75. doi: 10.1016/S0022-3999(02)00585-8

Greene, R.W., Ablon. J.S., Goring, J.C., Raezer-Blakely, L., Markey, J., Monuteaux, M.C., Henin, A., Edwards, G., & Rabbit, S. (2004). Effectiveness of Collaborative Problem Solving in affectively dysregulated children with oppositional-defiant disorder: Initial findings. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 1157-1164. doi: 10.1037/0022-006X.72.6.1157

Pollastri, A.R., Wang, L., Eddy, C.J., & Ablon, J.S. (2023). An open trial of Collaborative Problem Solving in a naturalistic outpatient setting. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 28, 512-524. doi: 10.1177/13591045221094387

Stoll, S.J., Hartman, J.D., Paxton, D., Wang, L., Ablon, J.S., Perry, B.D., & Pollastri, A.R. (2023). De-implemnting a point and level system in youth residential care without increased safety risk: A case study. Residential Treatment for Children and Youth. doi: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2233408

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:19.4	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts.
0:24.2	Hey, Rob, it's me, Diana.
0:26.3	And it's me, Jackie from the basement.
0:29.8	Right now, I'm everyone's January Hallmark Dream because I am in the Upper Northeast, in a cabin by the river where they're shutting down the
0:42.9	seaway.
0:43.5	So it's like all of these boats that are rushing to get out of the river so that they don't
0:47.1	get stuck here all winter long.
0:49.0	And it's beautiful.
0:50.3	And I'm wearing my I love Hallmark Channel hat.
0:52.9	Nice.
0:53.9	Yeah. It. Yeah.
0:55.2	It's fun.
0:55.9	So for folks, this is a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research,
1:00.6	wherever week we pick a topic and discuss it at length.
1:03.5	And surprisingly, this was an episode that originally we had on the schedule to do before
1:07.9	we went away for holiday breaks, but because of various illnesses
1:11.2	and whatnots losing voices. And this has just gotten pushed and pushed and pushed. So we're
1:16.2	recording this right after the holidays. We're trying to sneak it in before the New Year's. So make
1:21.1	sure we get it out on time. So, and we forgot we were going to record it until about 30 minutes ago.
1:26.5	We were ready to record, like we have the content, but we were not, we forgot we were going to record it until about 30 minutes ago. We were ready to record.
1:27.8	Like, we have the content, but we were not, we forgot we were actually going to get together to do this recording.
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