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Pragmatic ABAB design

The pragmatic ABAB design is a single-case experimental design that adapts the classic reversal (ABAB) logic to real-world clinical and applied constraints. It alternates between a baseline phase (A) and an intervention phase (B) twice, demonstrating experimental control through repeated phase changes while allowing flexibility — such as abbreviated withdrawals or partial reversals — when full withdrawal of treatment is ethically or practically impossible.

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Pragmatic ABAB Reversal Design
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  • Kazdin, A. E. (2011). Single-Case Research Designs: Methods for Clinical and Applied Settings (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. · ISBN 978-0195341881
  • Kratochwill, T. R., & Levin, J. R. (Eds.). (2010). Single-Case Intervention Research: Methodological and Statistical Advances. American Psychological Association. · ISBN 978-1433810251
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