Describe how you might help your client develop social skills through shaping.

Direction: Please complete the scenario below. Please put the number by the question. The responses does not have to be in order but the number must be put next to it. You may use bullets’ within the responses. Give your client a name.

You have a client that rarely interacts with his/her peers. He/she is obviously quite lonely but apparently has no confidence in his/her ability to make friends. Describe how you might help your client develop social skills through shaping. In your discussion, be sure to include:

The specific behavior(s) you would shape. Explain the behavior in detail.
Demonstrate the shaping of that behavior/skill using all components of shaping.
Provide a reasonable end result toward which you would work
A reinforcer you might use (include type and procedure)and why you made the choice you do. Be specific.
The sequence of steps you might take as you shape the desired behavior
Include the schedule of reinforcement you will utilize in shaping.
The Task analysis for the behavior.
The three-term contingency for that behavior
Graph the three-term contingency for the behavior using the reinforcement and extinction.

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