Training residential staff to conduct trial-based functional analyses.

Researchers trained house managers to run trial-based functional analyses.

They used supervisor-led behavioral skills training.

The study took place in a residential facility for adults with developmental delays.

A multiple-baseline design checked if staff kept the new skills.

House managers hit high procedural fidelity after the brief BST.

They kept the skills without extra booster sessions.

The trial-based FA stayed accurate across shifts and clients.

Kunnavatana et al. (2013) got the same result with teachers.

Both studies show short training plus feedback equals high FA fidelity.

Gerow et al. (2020) moved the idea into family homes.

Parents ran brief FAs with the same accuracy as the residential staff.

Morosohk et al. (2025) used BST for a different task—room searches.

Staff still reached mastery, proving BST works across duties.

You can train any staff member to run trial-based FAs in under an hour.

Supervisors only need to model, rehearse, and give feedback.

No need for long workshops or outside consultants.

Try it next team meeting and watch fidelity climb.