Social Behavior Mapping - Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day

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What’s happening around us influences our thoughts and feelings, reactions and responses. Social Behavior Mapping, a core treatment framework within the Social Thinking Methodology, is a visual template that helps users figure out the hidden social rules of a given situation based on what is happening and the people present. It also outlines a fundamental social concept we call the Social-Emotional Chain Reaction: how we act in a specific situation affects how others feel, how we make others feel affects how they treat us, and how we are treated affects how we feel about others and, ultimately, about ourselves. The book Social Behavior Mapping has been around for over a decade, but we recently updated the introduction with our current thinking. The latest edition includes:

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Alternatively, in small areas such as indoor spaces, spatial measurements can be collected using a local grid laid out in the area as long as the two axes (X and Y) used are at right angles on a flat plane [ 31]. Gridding enables the creation of locational information where it may not be possible to use the GPS. Grids are often used to determine the position of a particular thing, place, or activity in space. They are also used for point data and geographic information aggregation in research fields such as in assessing children’s physical activities and behavior [ 32, 33] and the linguistic landscape of a city [ 34]. Some studies have used raster-based grids for positioning when measuring physical activity [ 23]. Gridded digital maps have also been used real-time to code the location of children in their play environment [ 15, 32]. However, unlike video recordings, the real-time approach to collecting data leads to the likelihood of human coding errors [ 35] and leaves no room for future re-observation of the scenarios where coding occurred. Most of the aforementioned tools and methods for positioning require that locational information be assigned or collected real-time while other required datasets are collected. The Love to Play Community-University Partnership Team. Evaluation of a play-based recreation program for preschoolers: municipal recreation policy implications of Strathcona County’s Love to Play program. Edmonton; 2016. https://policywise.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/2017/01/Love-to-Play-Full-Report-13SM-Nykiforuk.pdf. Accessed 27 May 2019. It works to determine a relative ranking of socio-economic status of the household rather than an absolute ranking. It can help determine which households are benefiting from an assessment and whether or not they belong to the target group.

Free play encourages children to be self-driven in play using their own imagination in unregulated play while developing social behaviours and physical literacy levels that influence their long-term health [ 1, 2]. Features of these play spaces, such as the types of play equipment available and size, have been linked to increased physical activity levels and a variety of play behaviors among preschool children [ 3, 4]. Maps provide the opportunity to visualize information gathered about play spaces and how they are utilized during children’s play activities or how they may encourage certain social behaviors. Behavior mapping (also known as behavioral mapping) affords researchers the opportunity to gather, process, analyze, and represent data in efficient ways making it easier to determine how the environment may influence certain behaviors [ 5]. It relies on direct observation of behaviors and a map of the environment where behaviors are recorded, analyzed, and displayed [ 6]. Marušić BG, Marušić D. Behavioural maps and GIS in place evaluation and design. In: Application of geographic information systems. Now how does/can ABA fit into all of that? This question was probably asked because BCBAs (Board Certified Behavior Analysts) don’t always play well with others (sad but true…). I get. I have been on both sides of this issue. I have been the special ed teacher on one side of the table biting my tongue as a BCBA tells me all of the things I could be doing different during an IEP meeting. I have also been the BCBA hired to consult with a classroom teacher how to improve their behavior plans. BCBAs sometimes get a bad rap. First part of this, there are some bad apples. There are in any profession. You all know teachers that you would never let your child be in their classroom. You all have meet a doctor that you didn’t love. Ever profession includes people who don’t accurately represent the goals and missions of the job. There are definitely some BCBAs running around out there that aren’t doingmy profession any favors and are ruining it for the rest of us. As a teacher, parent, or clinician, when you meet one BCBA who rubs you the wrong way it can turn you off to the whole field for a while. On the other hand, video-based gridding as a method for providing locational data affords the researcher the opportunity to identify environmental information that may be missed by remote positioning during coding as it involves manual location detection at the same intervals as other variables such as physical activity. This is the case if other play variables were coded from videos and not real time. Unlike other positioning methods, video-based gridding allows the addition of locational information even after data collection and bypasses the need to ensure satellite signals are strong and not inhibited by walls and roofs during observations. Extending the OSRAC-P tool through the addition of indoor geolocational information to other free play variables in any space provides the opportunity to infer what type of play equipment or room layouts may encourage higher levels of play activity and different social behaviors among preschool children. For example, our results showed that associative play was the main social behavior that occurred around the grocery till (fixed play equipment). However, more play intervals occurred around the skipping pods than around the grocery till. This kind of nuanced information can be valuable for program managers and decision-makers interested in offering programs and play spaces associated with targeting and strengthening particular developmental domains among children.

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Buolamwini J, Gebru T. Gender shades: intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification. In: Friedler SA, Wilson C, editors. Proceedings of the 1st conference on fairness, accountability and transparency. New York, NY, USA: PMLR; 2018. p. 77–91. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 81). http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html. Accessed 27 May 2019. What’s happening around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and responses. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping), a core teaching framework within the Social Thinking® Methodology, uses visual templates to encourage learners to engage social observation for figuring out what to do and say (or not do and say) based on a particular situation: where we are, who is present, and what is happening. The maps also outline a fundamental teaching framework we call the Social Emotional Chain Reaction, which shows how we all impact one another when sharing space. The maps are meant to be taught from the perspective of the student or client to provide options for what to do or say in common situations. We encourage educators, therapists, and parents to jointly generate unique maps alongside the student or client based on their individual goals. Worobey J, Worobey HS, Adler AL. Diet, activity and BMI in preschool-aged children: differences across settings. Ecol Food Nutr. 2005;44(6):455–66. Social mapping, or 'wellbeing ranking', is used to identify households using pre-determined indicators based on socio-economic factors.Nykiforuk CI, Hewes J, Belon AP, Paradis D, Gallagher E, Gokiert R, Bisanz J, Nieuwendyk L. Evaluating child-friendly spaces: insights from a participatory mixed methods study of a municipality’s free-play preschool and space. Cities Health. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2018.1548894. Behavior mapping allows for effective representation of geo-located activities and serves as an effective tool to help interpret behavioral patterns [ 6, 7] even when the audience is not familiar with the subject [ 8]. The addition of precise locational information to behavior data allows for accurate mapping of place-dependent behaviors and activities in these environments. Creating a GIS (Geographic Information System) of physical activities and social behaviors underpins the correct positioning of observed behaviors and activities and their visualization on a behavior map. GIS is an effective tool for acquiring or creating locational data, storing, and linking such data with observational data (such as that for physical activities and social behaviors). It has been applied in several fields, including public health and community medicine, to effectively combine and analyze vast data collected geospatially [ 9, 10, 11, 12]. GIS-based behavior maps can show how frequently an activity occurred at a location and how other activities relate to it in time and space [ 7].

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Barrett LF, Adolphs R, Marsella S, Martinez AM, Pollak SD. Emotional expressions reconsidered: challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements. Psychol Sci Public Interest. 2019;20(1):1–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100619832930. The first step in behavior mapping is the creation of a map of the space being analyzed [ 42] or the provision of an existing (but not necessarily up-to-date) map as a guide [ 43]. In this case, the layout plan of the LTP room provided by the managers of the preschool programs run by Strathcona County was digitized using the ArcGIS 10.5 software [ 44]. The shapefiles created from the digitized layout map served as a base for customizing the locations of equipment in the LTP room seen on the videos monthly for use in the GIS analysis. Sommer R, Sommer B. A practical guide to behavioral research: tools and techniques. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2001. A description of the Social Emotional Chain Reaction (SECR), the foundational concept taught in Social Situation Mapping.

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Maps with options to honor neurodivergent choices or strategies. Some options are also inclusive of learning differences and/or disabilities. completed Social Behavior Maps (SBMs) for practical everyday situations that happen at school, home, and in the community (these compose the majority of the book and are unchanged in this edition). These maps are examples for you to reference when helping your student or client fill out a blank map. We hope the maps will inspire you with ideas of how to develop your own customized situations relevant to the individuals with whom you work. They are also helpful in teaching how to first observe behaviors in others prior to teaching awareness of one’s own behavior and its impact on others. We provide a non-intrusive approach to adding locational information to behavior data acquired from video recordings of preschool children in their indoor play spaces. The gridding technique showed to be a cost-effective method of gathering locational information about children from video recordings of their indoor physical activities and social behaviors. Visualizing the proportions of categories and observed intervals was done using bubble pie charts which allowed for the merging of multiple categorical information on one map. The addition of locational information to other play activity and social behavior data presented the opportunity to assess what types of equipment or play areas may encourage different physical activities and social behaviors among preschool children. Conclusions