H-3 Recommend intervention goals and strategies based on such factors as client preferences, supporting environments, risks, constraints, and social validity.

• A good operational difinition shows the 3 defining criteria, it must be #clear, #complete, and #objective. They allow you to convey either what the behavior looks like (topography, #objective) or what function the behavior serves while providing sufficient detail (examples and non-examples) to be clear and complete
• BCBAs should consider legal, funding, and resource constraints when selecting an intervention; however, documentation should not affect BCBAs this decision process. In order for the intervention to be successful.
• Time is a valuable resource when conducting assessments, BCBAs need to have adequate time to properly assess all of the client's necessary skills in order to inform the intervention planning process. When time is scarce, this limits(constrains) the ability to gather information during the assessment period. 
• Creating and confirming a task analysis is the first step when introducing a chaining procedure intervention. After creating the analysis, an assessment will be conducted to determine what steps can be probed as known. Finally the method of chaining will then be determined based off the learners assessment. 
• Behavior analysts manipulate environmental components that may hinder a client's progress or that affect ABA service delivery. The BCBA should take all necessary and feasible measures to provie adequate service delivery within their available means. The client's have a right to effective treatment and BCBAs must review and consider the effects of any factors that may impact the inverventions used. 
• BCBAs should ALWAYS consider the environment as a variable that could affect behavior during the ecological assessment-this is what it is all about! Manipulating environmental variables to aid behavior change is what we do!
• BCBA should align goals to client's NATURAL environment when intervening in their supporting environment. There should be ample availability of reinforcement of the clients bx that match naturally occurring sources of reinforcement. This allows for natural learning relevant to the client's typical interactions and helps generalize across conditions.
• The client's supporting environment MUST have ample availability of reinforcement opportunities for the clients bx when considering interventions to implement.
• Whenever you're observing a client in their environment (you're directly present) there is always potential for reactivity by the client. Reactivity refers to the effects of an observer influencing the behavior being assessed. It usually occurs when the client is aware of the BCBA's presence and purpose-which in turn influences their behavior. For example, Linda is Danny's BCBA, she is observing an RBT ask Danny to tact certain mastered stimuli from a set of cards. Danny is aware that Linda is in the room and watching him do the activity, when the RBT asks him to tact one of his known SDs, he answers incorrectly even though he has achived 100% success with tacting the item in the past. He is reacting to the presende of Linda and his bx is altered.
• In order for the intervention to be successful the caretakers must be supportive of the intervention.
• Baseline data refers to the data collection before the IV or intervention is implemented. If we were taking baseline data on a task analysis we would be assessing the learners known skills  vs teaching the task analysis.
• the client is first and foremost priority when determining procedures and interventions utilized to improve socially significant behavior.
• Time and cost is not an advantage of using an ecological assessment. Ecological assessements gather information about the environment that the client interacts with and provides an abundance of that information to allow the BCBA to see what factors influence the client's behavior. descriptive data, lots of information
• The BCBA should be taking into consideration that the caretaker can implement the plan. If they can not or will not aid in implementation then it probabaly will not get implemented. Because the ultimate goal of if an intervention is for the generalization and maintenance of the skill in the learner's natural environment, it is imperative to consider the caretaker having the ability to implement the plan.
• Envrionmental factors are any stimulus, variable or aspect within the envrioment that can affect change within that envrionment and behaviors.
• A definition of an environmental variable should be clear, complete and objective. This allows for replication of results, unambiguous evaluation and interpretation.
• BCBAs should consider the client's current repertoire/skill level and what functional skills are relevant to effectively interact with their environment
• Environment is an AKA for ecology. It is the environments that an individual contacts in their daily life.
• The behavioral environment includes the stimulus changes through all the stimuli and behaviors of others that affect the individual - it is the setting and conditions which surround the individual #environment
• collaboration between caretakers and other stakeholders should always occur for the success of the client.
• When creating a task analysis, the task must be broken down appropriately so all steps to the terminal behavior will be taught. Practitioners should perform the task themselves when creating the analysis to verify all steps are included when teaching the behavior.
• It's essenstial to continue to create opportunities to use skills that have been mastered after the skill is acquired. Once a client learns how to complete a skill successfully, it must be programmed for maintenance in the natural envrionment to promote generalization of the skill in novel and natural conditions. THis is important for mastering the skill and for its perseverance through time, otherwise the client will lose the skills necessary for mastery.
• As a BCBA, your goal should be for your client to not need your services. THe client's have a right to effective treatment and BCBAs must review and consider the effects of any factors that may impact the interventions used. A BCBA should make changes to the environment to lessen the need for ABA services.