SCRD's Withdrawal and Changing Criterion

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Single-Case Research Designs (SCRD) help evaluate interventions in applied contexts. SCRD's Withdrawal and Changing Criterion designs have different principles and uses. Understanding these research methods can equip academics and practitioners in numerous domains to carefully examine treatments. This paper examines the principles for implementing these designs, their internal and external validity issues, and their advantages and disadvantages. It also proposes a hypothetical target behavior and intervention, operationalizes it and justifies choosing one of these SCRDs.

Withdrawal Design Guidelines

Withdrawal designs, a subtype of single-case research designs, are necessary to study intervention effects by incorporating both intervention and withdrawal periods. In withdrawal designs, researchers remove the intervention to see if the target behavior returns to baseline. Using a withdrawal design requires numerous principles. The most crucial rule is creating a solid baseline by recording data until a pattern emerges. Such makes assessing intervention effects reliable. Researchers must specify withdrawal criteria and how to remove the intervention. Monitoring for confounding variables that may alter goal behavior is vital. It is critical to adopt the right withdrawal design based on baseline stability and desired