**5.1. Microcontingency history**

**a.** Circumstance in which the behavior started: this refers to the description of specific conventional circumstances in which the studied behavior acquired its particular functionality. **b.** Situation in which the current microcontingency started: it refers to how the studied interaction originated in the microcontingential system and how it evolved.

predetermined problems are classified and thus solutions. From this perspective, each studied interaction is considered unique and if it is necessary to intervene to look for a change, all of the previously analyzed elements must be considered to reach an "ideal" solution. Possible solutions or changes in the behavior of interest are raised to begin with. After this, an analysis of each one of the outlined solutions is carried out considering different criteria, for example, their feasibility, the possible short-, medium- and long-term effects, the necessary and available resources, and the possible emotional cost, among others. When a solution analysis is performed in clinical cases, the user must actively participate in this stage. Once the analysis has been carried out, the most appropriate solution or solutions are selected and are identified

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The horizontal axis in **Table 1** represents the macrocontingential dimension where there are two options: macrocontingential maintenance or macrocontingential change. If the detected problem is macrocontingential, in other words, when the decisive factor is a lack of correspondence between a person's behavior and his/her reference group's behavior, the macrocontingential change column is chosen; however, when the problem does not have anything to do with a moral evaluation, then the macrocontingential maintenance column is chosen. It is worth mentioning that the type of microcontingential change is specified in the lines and even though a change may be required to achieve correspondence between a person's and his/her group's assessment practices, or of a member of his/her group, this cannot be done without altering any aspect in the microcontingential order. The main direction of the chosen solution

As indicated, the specific type of foreseen change as a solution is found in the lines.

liefs, in the direction of his/her substitutive behavior.

eliminating conflicting responses, and thus altering its effects.

• Microcontingential maintenance: in this heading there are solutions that must be carried out at a macrocontingential level and that are usually related to a person's change of be-

• Change other people's behavior: the aim is to change other significant people's behavior

• Change one's own behavior: the possible solution is found in the user's behavior change in terms of its function, with the objective of developing competencies/skills, reducing or

**Macrocontingential change Macrocontingential maintenance**

in **Table 1**.

is selected in the table.

in the interaction.

Microcontingential maintenance Change other people's behavior Change one's own behavior

**Table 1.** Solution analysis table.

Options due to new microcontingencies Other functional options of the same behavior


#### **5.2. Competencies evaluation**

The non-problematic behavior that enables the identification of skills, non-problematic contexts, and resources must also be evaluated in the contingential analysis:


From this step on, the following two are the strictly technological components of the contingential analysis and are used when an intervention has to be done and there is an assessed problematic behavior. These two steps are used more in professional fields such as the clinical or health fields. In other professional fields analytical steps are regularly used. In case changes are required in other professional fields, the technological components are carried out adjusting to the nature of the interaction that will be changed (individual/group and type of professional duties that will be performed, among others).
