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Anchored direction
The person’s stated connection to meaningful future reference points that can help organise present choices.
Measurement question
Measurement can distinguish stated importance from clarity, stability and practical influence.
ABA research programme
A serious methodology deserves a serious research programme.
Research direction
ABA’s research programme connects clear constructs, meaningful measures, ethical governance and independent collaboration in a long-term agenda for methodological development.
Construct map
Clear ideas create better research questions.
These constructs give researchers and practitioners a shared language for examining how meaningful direction becomes observable, reviewable progress.
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Strategic coherence
The degree to which chosen projects, strategies and next actions fit the direction a person says matters.
Measurement question
A strong measurement model can combine self-report with observable plans and behaviour.
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Behavioural enactment
Whether a defined action was attempted or completed in the context and timeframe in which it was intended.
Measurement question
A useful adherence definition accounts for opportunity, feasibility and appropriate adaptation.
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State-linked capacity
A person’s reported capacity for deliberate action at a given moment, described through ABA’s public emotional-state language.
Measurement question
Research can examine reliability, interpretation and the relationship between reported state and capacity for deliberate action.
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Reviewable progress
A pattern of action, reflection and adjustment that can be examined over time without reducing progress to mood alone.
Measurement question
A credible model brings process, outcome and participant-experience indicators together rather than relying on a single success score.
Measurement agenda
More than “did it work?”
A serious programme examines usability, mechanisms, context, outcomes, implementation and participant experience. This creates a richer understanding of how change develops and endures.
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Feasibility and acceptability
Can people understand and use the method as intended, and where does participation create friction or burden?
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Process and adherence
Are the intended steps being used, adapted or abandoned—and what does appropriate adaptation look like?
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Outcomes and maintenance
Which outcomes are appropriate, for whom, over what period, and compared with what alternative or baseline?
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Safety and unintended effects
Where might the method confuse, overburden, exclude, delay care or produce effects that were not intended?
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Implementation
What training, supervision, context and organisational conditions affect responsible delivery?
Governance commitments
Evidence needs rules before it needs results.
- Define primary and secondary questions before analysing results.
- Use ethics review and informed-consent processes appropriate to the study.
- Separate service evaluation, product analytics and clinical research.
- Protect privacy and minimise collection of sensitive information.
- Declare researcher, founder and commercial conflicts of interest.
- Report limitations, protocol deviations, null findings and adverse signals.
- Invite independent replication and correction where the evidence warrants it.
Publication register
Research foundations with a clear path to ABA publications.
The evidence library already brings together peer-reviewed work relevant to the core processes within ABA. The next stage extends this foundation through formal ABA studies, measure development and scholarly publication.
Explore the peer-reviewed foundationsIndependent scrutiny
Independent thinking strengthens the work.
Researchers, clinicians, journal editors, methodologists and people with lived experience are invited to identify ambiguity, burden, exclusion, unintended effects and better study questions.
Open a research conversationContinue the conversation
Help build a rigorous body of ABA research.
Explore construct definition, measurement, feasibility, implementation, ethics or independent collaboration.