A normally well-behaved 15-year-old girl is being seen for her recent onset of conflict and behavior problems. The parents are overwhelmed and in need of direction. They have used a variety of behavioral modification techniques (e.g., lectures, restrictions, grounding, loss of privileges) without success. The behavior has become so problematic that it has impeded the father’s normal overseas travel for work. With further inquiry, you learn that the father’s employment has taken him away for extensive periods in the child’s life, but that she now has his nearly undivided attention. Drawing upon the operant conditioning work of B.F. Skinner, you identify the problem as one of:

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The Association of Social Work Boards Masters Exam, formerly known as the ASWB Intermediate exam, is a licensure examination designed by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). The ASWB exams measure skills and knowledge in social work-specific content areas, such as human development and behavior, social and economic justice, and intervention processes.  Each ASWB exam consists of 170 multiple choice questions, including 150 scored questions and 20 questions used for data collection regarding the effectiveness of the exam. The 10 sections of the ASWB Masters Exam include: Human... Show more

A normally well-behaved 15-year-old girl is being seen for her recent onset of conflict and behavior problems. The parents are overwhelmed and in need of direction. They have used a variety of behavioral modification techniques (e.g., lectures, restrictions, grounding, loss of privileges) without success. The behavior has become so problematic that it has impeded the father’s normal overseas travel for work. With further inquiry, you learn that the father’s employment has taken him away for extensive periods in the child’s life, but that she now has his nearly undivided attention. Drawing upon the operant conditioning work of B.F. Skinner, you identify the problem as one of:






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