“I am a little embarrassed to admit this, but the great problem I thought I had identified in the first session turned out by session 3 not to be the problem at all. In the meantime, I had the client...

“I am a little embarrassed to admit this, but the great problem I thought I had identified in the first session turned out by session 3 not to be the problem at all. In the meantime, I had the client involved in baselining for 3 weeks. What do I do about this first problem?” Response to Case 7 Maybe nothing. If you did the best you could to identify a problem at the first session, and started baselining, then that may be exactly what was appropriate at the time given the information you had. If, by the third session, you learn new information, and the target now shifts to another problem entirely, then start baselining that new problem and drop the first—if it really is not a problem. Don’t be embarrassed about making a judgment with the best available information at the time and then finding new information that produces a change in judgment. Be embarrassed only if you don’t change when you have new information indicating change is necessary