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The Podcast An ABA Technologies Academy Podcast Credit: 1.0 BACB, 1 Supervision Price: $15.00

The Podcast An ABA Technologies Academy Podcast Credit: 1.0 BACB, 1 Supervision Price: $15.00 Instructors: 

This podcast episode describes the importance of teaching supervisees to take a structured problem-solving approach. The roles of negative reinforcement and self-control in problem identification and problem-solving are discussed. The podcast describes a structured 5 step process for problem solving and strategies for maximizing your success at each step.

We are back talking about personality and states vs. traits, but Dr. Geller will expand on this and bring it into a social context. How does an old dog learn new tricks? Can we influence pro-social and cultural changes that will ultimately influence personalities? Is our current culture of independence going to sustain or must we switch to a culture of interdependence? There are so many considerations when talking about how our behavior influences others, but shouldn't we be trying to make this a better world for all (instead of just for ourselves)?

This month on Operant Innovations - Thought Leaders, we are back with Dr. E. Scott Geller as he answers the questions "Where do you see the field going?" and/or "Where would he like to see the field go?"

This month on Thought Leaders, we are joined by Dr. Sigrid Glenn as she tells us how her unusual journey to the field of Behavior Analysis in the 60's and how she has been instrumental in building the program at UNT and the Culturo-Behavioral Science Movement. -

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 who require behavioral services.

Every behavior analyst (hopefully) has learned that ours is a science of behavior. We do not learn that ours is a science of the individual or a science of the person. Why is that? Are we not, however, concerned with people, you may ask? Are we not concerned with the human condition? Are we not humanists?

Partnering with the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), ABA Technologies, Inc., makes professional development products available online for applied behavior analysis practitioners and related professions. In addition, ABA Tech’s instructional design and support team builds coursework for the Verified Course Sequences (VCS) offered through Florida Tech’s ABA Online program and School of Behavior Analysis.

Applied Behavior Analysis is more than just a bag of tricks known as Discrete Trial Training, the VB-MAPP, and token systems. However, when we begin to conceptualize our science as such, we lose the fundamentals upon which we found them. We rely too heavily on them in practice, and we fail to individualize our services.

Jack Michael is one of the most brilliant men ever to grace the field of behavior analysis. He engaged in deep and elegant conceptual analysis, and significantly expanded our understanding of the nature of behavior. But his written explanations tend toward an economy of language: compressed and precise.

A SCIENCE-BASED STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE WORLD THROUGH OUR BEHAVIORS
The Wisdom Factor: Reducing the Control of Bias, Threat, and Fear
while Building a Better World
Alice Darnell Lattal, Ph.D. and Carlos A. Zuluaga, M.S., BCBA

Behavior is all of what people do, say, think, and feel. The science of behavior studies how people interact with their world, including other people, places, and experiences.

An extension of Kennedy’s work was published seven years later in 1999, by James Carr and colleagues. Their paper assessed the frequency of social-validity measures reported in the first 31 years of JABA. They analyzed the difference in trends of reporting social validity for experiments that had highly controlled analog settings versus more naturalistic and dynamic settings. The reason for doing so harkens back to Kennedy’s comments about the difference between basic and applied research. 

This month on Operant Innovations - Thought Leaders, we are back with Dr. Darnell Lattal as she answers the questions "Where do you see the field going?" and/or "Where would he like to see the field go?"