A clinical psychologist wants to test a treatment to reduce the self-injury behavior of an autistic child.She faces an ethical dilemma of needing to remove a potentially beneficial treatment to establish its effectiveness.In order to conduct an experiment that would allow causal inferences but also eliminate her ethical dilemma,the psychologist should conduct

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A multiple-baselines design allows the psychologist to establish a baseline of the self-injury behavior before implementing the treatment in different situations or settings. This way, the treatment can be evaluated within each baseline, and once it has been proven effective in one baseline, it can be applied to the other baselines while still allowing for data collection. This eliminates the ethical dilemma of removing a potentially beneficial treatment and provides causal inference through a controlled experiment.

A Clinical Psychologist Wants to Test a Treatment to Reduce