Applied Behavior Analysis
Examines observable behavior, its context, and the consequences that may sustain it.
What conditions make this behavior more or less likely?
6 Lens Model™ · Frankie C. Wilson Jr.
Six lenses.
One integrated intervention.
When training, reminders, or a new process aren’t translating into action, you need a clearer explanation before you choose another fix. The 6 Lens Model is designed to help you understand overlapping barriers and build one practical intervention plan to test.
Six lenses. One integrated intervention.
Talk through your challenge Explore a practical example01 / The problem
Human problems cross disciplinary lines.
Your staff completed the training, but the new practice isn’t being used. You invited feedback, but few people responded. You provided information, but the next step still feels confusing. These problems can look like a lack of motivation when skills, trust, workload, access, or competing priorities are also involved.
The 6 Lens Model is intended to help you examine those factors together before deciding what to change. It is worth considering when you manage a team or program, several barriers may overlap, and you need a coordinated response you can explain and evaluate.
One shared problem. One integrated intervention. One measurement plan.
02 / The six lenses
Six ways to understand.
One problem to solve.
A “lens” is a way of looking at the problem. These six research disciplines ask different questions about what people do and why. Their insights are brought together to shape one plan.
Social-Emotional Learning
Examines emotional skills, relationships, and the social conditions surrounding participation.
Do people have the emotional support and relationships they need to act?
Negotiation Science
Examines interests, perspective-taking, perceived options, and the conditions for workable agreement.
What matters to each person, and where can they find common ground?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Contributes research on the relationships among interpretations, emotions, and behavioral patterns.
How do people’s expectations and interpretations affect their next step?
Behavioral Economics
Examines how framing, perceived value, incentives, and decision context influence choices.
How does the choice environment shape what people do?
Behavioral Neuroscience
Contributes research on the processes involved in motivation, attention, learning, and self-regulation.
What demands does the task place on attention, learning, and self-control?
03 / The synthesis principle
The innovation is not the six lenses.
It is the synthesis.
- Problem
What isn’t working?
- Target Behavior
What action do you want to support?
- Six-Lens Analysis
ABA · SEL · Negotiation Science · CBT · Behavioral Economics · Behavioral Neuroscience
- Evidence Convergence/Conflict
Where do the findings agree or disagree?
- Behavioral Mechanism
What might explain the behavior?
- Integrated Intervention
One coordinated plan to test.
- Measurement + Refinement
Check what changes; improve the plan.
Different evidence.
A coherent explanation.
Imagine that a new work practice isn’t taking hold. Training alone may not address unclear expectations, an awkward process, and concern about asking for help. The analysis considers how those factors interact, where the evidence agrees or disagrees, and what still needs to be understood.
The goal is one coordinated plan whose parts support the same action. A “behavioral mechanism” is the proposed explanation for why that plan might help; measurement lets you examine whether that explanation holds up in your setting.
The model is designed to produce the most defensible integrated intervention supported by the available evidence while making uncertainty explicit.
This diagram describes the public conceptual process. It does not disclose the model’s proprietary implementation.
04 / Standardized output
A decision you can explain.
A response you can evaluate.
The intended deliverable is a structured intervention plan: what needs to change, why this response is worth testing, how to put it into practice, and how to judge progress. You should be able to use it in a team conversation, not just read it in a research report.
- Behavior + context
- A defined target behavior, the people and setting involved, and the practical problem it addresses.
- What the research suggests
- Relevant findings across the six domains, including agreement, conflict, and limits of transfer.
- Why the plan might help
- A clear, testable explanation of the conditions believed to influence the target behavior.
- Coordinated intervention
- One coherent response with a shared behavioral objective and an implementation plan.
- Choice + access
- Attention to meaningful choice, communication access, cultural context, and the burden of participation.
- Measurement + uncertainty
- Observable outcomes, a baseline, evaluation plans, and explicit limitations to revisit as evidence develops.
Your challenge
Let’s understand your challenge.
Tell me what people are being asked to do, what’s happening instead, and what you’ve already tried. We can discuss whether an exploratory application of the model, broader behavioral strategy, or a workshop fits your situation.
Discuss your challenge with FrankieFor researchers: collaboration on the model’s development and evaluation is also welcome.
05 / Scientific positioning
Grounded in research.
Accountable to evidence.
Model-level validation pendingThe 6 Lens Model is an integrative framework in development. Its foundations draw from established behavioral disciplines; the integrated model itself has not yet been empirically validated.
Evidence supporting a discipline does not automatically establish the effectiveness of this synthesis. Findings must be assessed for their relevance to the population, setting, target behavior, and intervention being considered.
The research agenda is to test whether the framework can produce consistent, transparent, useful intervention designs and whether those designs improve meaningful outcomes. Clinical findings and neuroscience findings require careful translation into applied settings.
Selected disciplinary research foundations
These works inform the underlying disciplines. They are not validation studies of the 6 Lens Model.
- Baer, Wolf, & Risley (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis.
- Durlak et al. (2011). The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions.
- Galinsky & Mussweiler (2001). First offers as anchors: The role of perspective-taking and negotiator focus.
- Hofmann et al. (2012). The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy: A review of meta-analyses.
- Kahneman & Tversky (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk.
- Berkman (2018). The neuroscience of goals and behavior change.
06 / Research program
From a framework
to an evidence base.
The program is intended to move from conceptual clarity to a documented intervention protocol, then to studies of reliability and preliminary validity.
In development · Not yet published
The 6 Lens Model: An Integrative Behavioral Framework for Evidence-Informed Intervention Design
Conceptual foundations, disciplinary integration, and the rationale for synthesis.
In development · Not yet published
From Multidisciplinary Analysis to Integrated Intervention: The 6 Lens Behavioral Intervention Protocol
A proposed account of the intervention-design process and its documentation standards.
In development · Not yet published
Reliability and Preliminary Validity of the 6 Lens Model for Behavioral Intervention Design
Planned evaluation of consistency and preliminary validity. Findings are not yet available.
07 / Applications
Does this sound like your challenge?
The model’s intended uses start with a specific action you want to support. These are potential applications, with effectiveness still to be evaluated.
Organizations + workplaces
You manage a team that understands a new process but struggles to use it consistently. What needs to change around the task?
Public + community engagement
You direct a program that needs community input, but the same few people respond. What makes participation difficult or unappealing?
Disability inclusion
You want everyone to participate, but your information or processes create barriers. How can people understand, choose, and contribute?
Education + program design
You invest in learning or services, but engagement drops before people can benefit. Where does the experience get in their way?
08 / Illustrative case studies
What integration could look like.
These scenarios illustrate the model’s intended use. They are not completed 6 Lens trials, client outcome claims, or evidence of efficacy.
Authored illustrations of the public concept, not an assessment, a client result, or the model’s proprietary analysis.
Problem
Training into practice
Staff completed training, but a new practice is rarely used in daily work.
Target behavior
Staff use the new practice during a relevant work task.
Explore the six questions behind this example
01
Applied Behavior Analysis
What happens before and after staff try the practice?
02
Social-Emotional Learning
Can staff ask for help or acknowledge uncertainty?
03
Negotiation Science
Does the practice fit staff priorities and constraints?
04
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What do staff expect will happen if they try it?
05
Behavioral Economics
How much effort does the next step require?
06
Behavioral Neuroscience
What attention and rehearsal does the task require?
What could fit together
Several questions point toward the conditions for supported practice: clear purpose, a usable process, room to rehearse, and helpful feedback.
What remains uncertain
Observation and staff input are needed to establish which barriers matter in this setting.
One possible integrated intervention
One supported practice cycle
Connect the purpose to a real task, rehearse the practice in that setting, make guidance easy to find, and give useful feedback as part of the same work cycle.
Why it might help: Making practice feasible and supported may help staff use what they learned. This explanation needs testing.
Measurement + refinement
- Use of the practice during relevant tasks
- Task quality and the burden on staff
- Whether use continues over time
Compare with the starting point, listen to the people affected, and refine the response as evidence develops.
09 / Intellectual-property attribution
Developed by
Frankie C. Wilson Jr.
The 6 Lens Model™ is Frankie C. Wilson Jr.’s integrative behavioral intervention framework. Its distinct contribution is the proposed synthesis of six disciplines into one coordinated intervention strategy.
The underlying disciplines retain their established scholarly origins. This page presents the model’s public conceptual overview and research direction; proprietary scoring, weighting, thresholds, decision rules, intervention-selection logic, prompts, and algorithms are not disclosed.
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