Throughout this course, you will develop a single-subject case design centered around your work with a client. This should ideally be a client that you are currently working with, but can be a client that you worked with in the past. The goal of your single-subject case design will be for you to identify a problem of your client, establish the baseline, select an intervention, and then compare the baseline with post-intervention data to determine if the intervention is working.
For this part of your single-subject case design, you will complete a problem formulation. See the instructions below for the information you need to include in this assignment.
Problem Formulation
After identifying a client for your single-subject case design, you will gather whatever documentation (such as case records, process recordings, etc.) you have available to determine a client’s behavior that you want to change. Draw from the required readings as well as documentation from your fieldwork, such as excerpts of process recordings and/or minutes from meetings, or any other documentation during your fieldwork that reflects a client system’s behavior you wanted to change.
Keeping in mind that your client system can be an individual, couple/group, or community, the following are examples of behaviors that you might want to work with your client system to change: crying, generating fundraising dollars, marital arguments, number of hours volunteering per week, truancy, attendance at group meetings, screaming, lateness, and so on.
Make a list of 10 aspects of an overall behavior. For example, if you identify depression as an overall behavior, aspects of this behavior might include: crying, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, use of sad words, lack of humor, hair left uncombed.