Alison Betz, PhD, BCBA-D

Vice President of Clinical Product & Senior Consultant

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Dr. Alison Betz, President and Founder of Betz Behavioral Consulting, received her PhD from Utah State University. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Alison previously served as faculty at Florida Institute of Technology and has taught everything from single subject design, assessment and treatment of severe behavior, to OBM. Her primary research and clinical interests are assessing and treating severe behavior, evaluating efficient teaching procedures for individuals with autism, and examining the effects of conditioned reinforcement. She has published in the areas of functional analysis, applied behavior analysis, and autism in co-authored book chapters and in prestigious behavioral journals. Alison serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Education and Treatment of Children, and Behavior Development Bulletin.

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Affecting Risky Driver Behavior

We as humans behave the way we do for one reason: to get what we need and want. This is quite a bold statement, I know, but it is pure science, the science of behavior. Although the focus of this article is driver behavior, what you will read can be applied to any behavior.
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