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Generalists and Specialists
Some children from an early age appear to know the direction they wish to take and set out to make it happen. Others are less focused and may indeed engage in reinforcer sampling. Both groups of children need parental encouragement and support.
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The Behavior Analyst in Schools: Ethics, Rules and Reinforcement
Interdisciplinary teams devise and implement educational plans for children with special learning challenges. Sometimes, these involve a behavior analyst. Whether you are a behavior analyst thinking about working in schools, currently working in schools, or working alongside a school’s behavior analyst, you know schools have teams of several people who contribute to each child’s education plan.
$39.00
Behavior Boot Camp
“Reinforcement is probably the most important concept to understand if we’re going to understand how to change someone’s behavior.”
Meagan Gregory, PhD, BCBA
$20.00
Telling Our Story: Importance of Dissemination
Effective tools and interventions are the hallmarks of behavior analysis. Across disciplines and populations, applied behavior analysis improves people’s lives.
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Free Performance Diagnostic Checklist Download
This free tool is a modified version of a Performance Diagnostic Checklist, based on the original Performance Diagnostic Checklist (Austin, 2000) and the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (Carr, Wilder, Majdalany, Mathisen, & Strain, 2013). The PDC is another tool for assessing the contingencies surrounding the performance of an individual or group of workers.
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Coordinating Behavior Analtsis and Psychiatric Services
The behavior analyst is the team member who is best prepared to demonstrate a direct link between the behavior and the environment. This will reduce the likelihood that psychotropic medications will be incorrectly used to address operant processes.
Thomas Freeman, MS, BCBA, LBA-NY, LBA-MA
$45.50
Working Ethically and Effectively within the School System: The Dos, Don’ts and Ethical Considerations Every BCBA Should Know
Collaborating with school personnel is not easy. There are many other parameters, schedules, and opinions to consider. Creating and implementing an effective Individualized Education Plan (IEP) can be confusing for parents, behavior analysts, and teachers alike. Nicole Postma will review the Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) tier model that many local school districts use.
$19.50
A Behavioral Approach to Consciousness
“Consciousness is nothing more than a word evoked by many different behaviors under different circumstances. We should not allow ourselves to debate “what is consciousness” or “what is the nature of consciousness” because there is no resolution to such a debate.”
Hank Schlinger Jr, PhD, BCBA-D
$19.50
The Tipping Scale: Customer Gratuity and Quality of Service
Servers and wait staff deal with it all--heavy trays, plates with strangers’ food remains rude customers and neck-breathing management. A treasure trove of memes, Facebook posts, and popular articles chronicle the often grotesque conditions of serving strangers a meal and cleaning up after them. Many people (even some of our readers) likely waited tables in high school, college, or now as a career.
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Getting to Know Children in Foster Care
“I believe completely that Applied Behavior Analysis is and has been a huge influence in the child welfare arena for many years in the state of Florida. Our positive and productive gains are promising, and we need to compel more behavior analyst clinicians to go out there and replicate this work nationwide.”
Karin Torsiello, MS, BCBA
$32.50
Performance-Based Pay
The organizational benefit is the alignment of pay/effort of employees to the company.
Byron Wine, PhD
$75.00
Inside the Box: An Interview with Dr. Jack Michael
Released in 2009, in a historically significant interview with Dr. Jack Michael, conducted by Tate McGhee, Dr. Michael recounts his time before behavior analysis as both a student and a soldier, then explains the chance events that moved him into the field of behavior analysis.
$32.50
The Wisdom Factor
… Darnell Lattal has spent a lifetime on issues of coercion and its fallout across educational, health, mental health, and workplace settings. A clinical psychologist by training, she spent her first two decades of professional life in special … International for 14 years, appointed as Board Chair for another two years before returning to her coaching and consulting work. Since March of 2020, she has served as CEO and President of ABA Technologies, Inc.; her wealth of experience spans more than 50 years and six continents. Her publications include Clark and Lattal, Workplace Ethics: Winning the Integrity Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993; University Press, 1998), Ethics at Work …
Examining the Shame of Trauma
AbstractPractitioners across professional backgrounds commonly interact with individuals who have experienced trauma. That trauma can result from a range of experiences, including those anchored in shame. In fact, shame can be both a cause and effect of trauma.
$25.00