Mysterious Science
Thursday, 05 November 2020
Guest Blogger: Ellee Chin, ABA Technologies CSF Student Have you ever heard someone you know mention anything about behavior analysis or something along the lines of behavior management? If so, did you ever wonder if they were psychics who can read your mind by simply observing your behavior from afar or figure out your intentions
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The Heart of ABA: Science To The Rescue
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
A dark history of failed institutions, eugenics, experimentation, and the triumph of human-centered science over bigotry and neglect. Blogger: Jana Burtner The historical and clinical content of this blog is based on work by Thomas Freeman, MS, BCBA, LBA-NY, LBA-MA, who has spent many years working and researching in the field. Many of the ideas
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How to Incorporate Self-Care Strategies Into Your Behavior-Analytic Practice
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Blogger: Carlos Zuluaga The goal of ABA practitioners is to help consumers of behavior-analytic services achieve meaningful outcomes. Such a noble goal demands the identification and implementation of effective interventions. It is clear the implementation of effective treatment involves the manipulation of relevant environmental events influencing the behavior of consumers. But, an aspect sometimes overlooked
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Q&A ABA in Spain with Dr. Javier Virues Ortega
Monday, 19 October 2020
Guest Blogger: Jaime Rus Alba, ABA Technologies CSF Student Intro: ¿Qué es el análisis aplicado de Conducta? ¿Es una ciencia independiente? ¿En qué se diferencia de la psicología? ¿Cuál es el futuro de esta ciencia? ¿Qué presencia tiene en el mundo hispanohablante? A éstas y otras preguntas le da respuestas uno de los mayores especialistas
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Burnout: Recognition and Prevention
Tuesday, 06 October 2020
Guest Blogger: Abigail Petronelli, ABA Tech CSF Student The prevalence of burnout varies between work fields. One study found physicians experience burnout at rates of 37.9% and the general population at around 30% (Shanafelt et. al, 2012). Medical students reported a 50% burnout rate, with over 10% experiencing suicidal ideation (Dyrbye et. al, 2008).
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Generalization in Times of Crisis
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Guest Blogger: Jaime Rus Alba, ABA Technologies CSF Student Applied Behavior Analysis is mostly implemented within controlled environments (schools, clinics, hospitals and residential settings), with a recommended 30-40 hour/week treatment plan. For services performed within a client’s home, the issue of reaching generalization in the natural environment is not so prominent, but we are
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Professional Development through Animal Research
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
By Vince Bello ABA Technologies CSF Student Behavior analysis today gets most of its mainstream recognition for the work being done in applied settings, referred to as applied behavior analysis (ABA). The progress of behavior analytic applications has been important for the dissemination of the science and even better for the clients across the world
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Rules, Contingencies, and the Battle of Britain
Tuesday, 08 September 2020
Blogger: Andy Lattal, Ph.D. The distinction between contingency governed (or “shaped”) and rule-governed behavior is an old saw for most behavior analysts. Like most dichotomies, this one doesn’t hold up under careful analysis. Behavior that is shaped by its consequences gives rise, at least with humans, to rules that can impact future actions along the lines
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As Useful as a Third Ear
Friday, 04 September 2020
Blogger: Andy Lattal, Ph.D. When I was a graduate student in clinical psychology, lo those many years ago, I was assigned Theodore Reik’s book, Listening with the Third Ear. Reik was a psychoanalyst of considerable reputation and his book was widely read by my generation and earlier generations of clinical psychology students. The message, of
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The Term DRO
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Bad or Possibly Redeemable Label? Blogger: Andy Lattal, Ph.D. A procedure in which each target response postpones a scheduled reinforcer most often is described in both the basic and applied research and practice literature as a differential-reinforcement-of-other-behavior schedule, or DRO. The term first was used by Reynolds (1961), although in a paper received two months before
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Covid-19 Dreamin’
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Blogger: Andy Lattal, Ph.D. I, like many people of my age, am gravely concerned about getting infected by the coronavirus and coming down with a devastating-to-deadly case of COVID-19. Since early March, my wife, Darnell, and I have meticulously social distanced, ordered groceries online, washed our hands to the tune of the happy birthday verse (twice),
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Praying Deer
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Blogger: Andy Lattal, Ph.D. For the past six months I have had the pleasure of living in the beautiful city of Nara, Japan, during a sabbatical leave to conduct research at nearby Osaka Kyoiku University with my fine colleague Professor Hiroto Okouchi. Among the many beautiful sights of Nara is a 1300- acre park. And
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