2022 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 111-117
Study objective: The present study investigated effects of proxy-self-monitoring on the behavior of a youth with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder who, when playing card games in an individual developmental support situation, frequently broke the rules of the card game. Proxy-self-monitoring is a procedure that uses video to evaluate the behavior of others who imitate the behavior of participants. Design: AB probe. Setting: A counseling room at an after-school day service. Participant: A 16-year-old boy with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Intervention: A video of a staff member and another person playing the role of participants in a card game was created. The participant watched the video and then evaluated how much the non-staff member was breaking the rules of the game. Measure: The frequency of the participant’s breaking the rules of card games, analyzed by the partial interval method. Results: The introduction of proxy-self-monitoring immediately reduced the frequency of his rule-breaking behavior. Even after the proxy-self-monitoring was discontinued, his rule-breaking behavior remained at a lower frequency than during baseline. Conclusion: The present study suggests that proxy-self-monitoring may be effective for reducing rule-breaking behavior, as it was when that intervention was applied to the participant’s rule-breaking in a card game.
