QASP-S EXAM STUDY GUIDE USING COMPETENCY
GUIDE EXPECTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Person Centered Planning refers to...
ANSWER
family of approaches to organizing and guiding community change in alliance w/ people w/
disabilities and their families and friends
Question 2.
Phases of escalated behavior
ANSWER
1. Calm
2. Trigger
3. Agitation (support, choices, proximity, relaxation)
4. Acceleration (limit verbal interaction, calm, assess situation)
5. Peak (assess safety, institute plan, room clears, coordinate with staff)
6. De-escalation (monitor, give space, non-judgemental discussion, easy/concrete tasks)
7. Recovery (assist in returning to regular tasks)
Question 3.
Positive Behavior Support
ANSWER
an approach used to support behavior change. The method is not designed to "fix" the person
& never uses punishment. Main idea: teaching someone a more effective/ acceptable bx will
decrease problem bx.
Question 4.
Why autism is considered a spectrum disorder?
ANSWER
ASD can have a range of symptoms
,Question 5.
FBA hypothesis
ANSWER
Summarize what is known about triggers, behaviors, and maintaining consequences and
offers an informed guess about purpose of behavior
Question 6.
Steps of Person Centered Planning: Profiling
ANSWER
1. Develop a history for focus person. (Background, critical events, medical issues, major
developments, important relationships)
2. Description of quality of life for FP. (Comm participation, comm presence, choices/rights,
respect & competence)
3. Personal preferences of FP. (Preferred activities, things they do not like)
Question 7.
5 steps of DTT
ANSWER
1.Antecedent-sets up the response (SD, environment)
2.Prompt
3.Response
4. Consequence for Correct Response/ Incorrect response
5. Inter-trial interval
Question 8.
Indirect Assessment
ANSWER
Assessment that relies on information from others. The information on the problem behavior,
antecedents, and consequences is not derived from direct observation but from retrospective
report in interviews and questionnaires.
, Question 9.
Scored Interval
IOA
ANSWER
# int agreement occurred/ total # intervals where bx occurred (agree/disagree) x100%
Interval counts
Question 10.
Four empirically supported pivotal behaviors
ANSWER
motivation, responding to multiple cues, self-management,social initiation
Question 11.
Exceptions to
client confidentiality
ANSWER
1) Required by law or court order to disclose
2) To obtain legal or ethical advice for a lawyers. Use of hypotheticals is ok if discreet to protect
the identity of the client.
3) To prevent the client from committing a crime
4) To prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm, which allows the lawyer to
disclose client confidences to protect third-parties from serious harm in extraordinary
circumstances
5) To rectify a fraud on a tribunal committed by the lawyer's own client
7) Disclosure expressly authorized to advance the client's best interests
Question 12.
What is Discriminated stimulus?
ANSWER
a stimulus in the prescene of which a response has a higher probability of occurence as it is
lkely to be reinforced
GUIDE EXPECTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Person Centered Planning refers to...
ANSWER
family of approaches to organizing and guiding community change in alliance w/ people w/
disabilities and their families and friends
Question 2.
Phases of escalated behavior
ANSWER
1. Calm
2. Trigger
3. Agitation (support, choices, proximity, relaxation)
4. Acceleration (limit verbal interaction, calm, assess situation)
5. Peak (assess safety, institute plan, room clears, coordinate with staff)
6. De-escalation (monitor, give space, non-judgemental discussion, easy/concrete tasks)
7. Recovery (assist in returning to regular tasks)
Question 3.
Positive Behavior Support
ANSWER
an approach used to support behavior change. The method is not designed to "fix" the person
& never uses punishment. Main idea: teaching someone a more effective/ acceptable bx will
decrease problem bx.
Question 4.
Why autism is considered a spectrum disorder?
ANSWER
ASD can have a range of symptoms
,Question 5.
FBA hypothesis
ANSWER
Summarize what is known about triggers, behaviors, and maintaining consequences and
offers an informed guess about purpose of behavior
Question 6.
Steps of Person Centered Planning: Profiling
ANSWER
1. Develop a history for focus person. (Background, critical events, medical issues, major
developments, important relationships)
2. Description of quality of life for FP. (Comm participation, comm presence, choices/rights,
respect & competence)
3. Personal preferences of FP. (Preferred activities, things they do not like)
Question 7.
5 steps of DTT
ANSWER
1.Antecedent-sets up the response (SD, environment)
2.Prompt
3.Response
4. Consequence for Correct Response/ Incorrect response
5. Inter-trial interval
Question 8.
Indirect Assessment
ANSWER
Assessment that relies on information from others. The information on the problem behavior,
antecedents, and consequences is not derived from direct observation but from retrospective
report in interviews and questionnaires.
, Question 9.
Scored Interval
IOA
ANSWER
# int agreement occurred/ total # intervals where bx occurred (agree/disagree) x100%
Interval counts
Question 10.
Four empirically supported pivotal behaviors
ANSWER
motivation, responding to multiple cues, self-management,social initiation
Question 11.
Exceptions to
client confidentiality
ANSWER
1) Required by law or court order to disclose
2) To obtain legal or ethical advice for a lawyers. Use of hypotheticals is ok if discreet to protect
the identity of the client.
3) To prevent the client from committing a crime
4) To prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm, which allows the lawyer to
disclose client confidences to protect third-parties from serious harm in extraordinary
circumstances
5) To rectify a fraud on a tribunal committed by the lawyer's own client
7) Disclosure expressly authorized to advance the client's best interests
Question 12.
What is Discriminated stimulus?
ANSWER
a stimulus in the prescene of which a response has a higher probability of occurence as it is
lkely to be reinforced
