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Towards functional independence and a meaningful life!  Develop foundational skills to achieve independence and skills to actively practice psychological flexibility on the road to a meaningful life. 

So, Why the Happy Medium Approach? Who Can Benefit?  

HMA is an approach for individuals who present with distinct characteristics in overarching skill categories indicated in the slide show below.  The individual may have long histories in behavior analytic treatment, dual diagnoses, trauma histories, or other life circumstances.   The slide show below is not an exhaustive list of skill deficits an interventionist can see while using HMA.  It should provide some framework for identifying skill deficits that you might see in individuals that indicate HMA will be effective. ​

Approach Highlights

  • Support individual with Direct Contingency Management, Indirect Contingency Management, and Rule Governed Behavior
  • Design treatment for behaviors with multiple functions
  • Special attention to social validity and flexible programing
  • Successfully use language to support intervention​
  • ​Gain access to psychological flexibility programing like DNA-V, ACT, or Brief ACT. 

Components of HMA

  1. Learning Happy Medium Language 
  2. Happy Medium Approach Strategies
  3. HMA Case Conceptualization and Treatment Process Tool with Guide Questions
  4. HMA Program Bank
  5. HMA Treatment Plan Template 
  6. HMA Interventionist Competency and Trainer Competency
  7. HMA Framework for Program Development
  8. HMA Supplemental Material 
  9. HMA Program Evaluation
  10. Supporting Research

Intervention Strategies

  1. The Noticing Grid ​
  2. ABC Skill Access
  3. Hierarchy of Reinforcement
  4. Known Preferred and Non Preferred
  5. Priority of Undesirable Behavior 
  6. Shaping Down Undesirable Behavior 
  7. Planned Use of Negative Reinforcement
  8. History of Trauma and Respect for Learning History
  9. Priority of Teaching New and Replacement Behaviors
  10. Systematic Increase in Demands
  11. Functionally Flexible  Reactive and Proactive Strategies for Undesirable Behavior
  12. Team People Files
  13. Creating a Team with Clarity and Purpose
  14. Staff Directory 

Intervention Tips!

Interventionist Tools 

  1. Leveled (1-3) Interventionist Competency Assessment and Trainer Competency 
  2. Case Conceptualization and Treatment Process Tool
  3. Treatment Plan Template
  4. Program Bank 
  5. Supplemental Materials 
  6. 7 Dimensions Program Evaluation 

Approach Overview and Practice Based Evidence 

The Happy Medium Approach by Rosalie Prendergast

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Free HMA and HML Resources

Shaping in Succession
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fW6NYpV6SfhWW2KRxDuObAAUHDYID6RF/view?usp=sharing

When Extinction Isn't an Option 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_LjnDe9EHgyBnnKwf4hM_J0-E0pLWwDI/view?usp=sharing

Replacement Behaviors
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qAkuBaJEPTsaYMIr131ohqtimzrH39kB/view?usp=sharing

Language Pairings to Support Contextual Awareness 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4XTzfFP3j7KR38s4unAcEC_b4yledI5/view?usp=sharing

Planned Use of Negative Reinforcement
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aYxrlbIY2gMQ3TUNf6Z5fvQeXFhERaAJ/view?usp=sharing

Making the Unpredictable Predictable 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TffscrxG9_WjW5yDdI9vYIiXNwbdgBQs/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KHiJgFG5dYNbSHktB-nFJOIj4cJW8Awv/view?usp=sharing

Teaching Emotions from an ACT Perspective 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17O75_R87h2GNsW6J_ndAwo0waRECIUHe/view?usp=sharing

When Behaviors have Multiple Functions 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10CITszzGnCqfbGJLAY_LMo83YvlnoclK/view?usp=sharing

Self Monitoring 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15MWvt7SDvy63zhRSVjIzC3etnlv0CC68/view?usp=sharing

All the Tops of HML
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uOZKeo4IhC7UF2gYWO5QujtC7hxJOwE3/view?usp=sharing