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In-home Services
Phoenix Behavior Services, LLC provides behavioral services to clients in
their home or facility. This is done for your convenience. However, it also
allows the therapist to directly view the client's behavior in a more natural
setting. This can be important in properly understanding and treating the
clients' difficulties.
The following recommendations will help ensure your in-home program is
successful:
- Establish an area where you and your psychologist or behavior analyst can work. This area
should be quiet, uncluttered, and conducive to treatment.
- For early autism treatment programs, make sure there is a desk with at least
two chairs in a quiet, contained area. Your therapist will inform you as to
what supplies are needed. It is recommended you keep them in an assigned
location in the same room as the treatment.
- Make the environment free from distractions. Turn off the television, turn
down the phone, and turn on the answering machine. Stop any chores or other
tasks you may be doing, so that your full attention is on your behavior analyst
and your session with him/her.
- Ensure that there is sufficient privacy. With child clients, it is
important that siblings do not interfere with sessions by eavesdropping or
bothering the child. If there is concern about interference from one's spouse
or other family members, clients may wish to arrange sessions for a time when
others are away from home or will be engaged in other activities.
- Ensure that you have sufficient time in your schedule for your sessions. Do
not schedule sessions immediately after you are due to come home, or immediately
before you are due to leave.
- Plan what you will say and do if neighbors or friends stop by during
treatment. If you do not want them to know you are receiving behavior analysis
services, you may wish to prepare a statement about who your therapist is. Your
therapist will not reveal information about your therapy without your
permission.
- Make sure you will be home at the time of your scheduled session. If you
will be late or absent for any reason, make sure you call your therapist and
inform him/her.
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