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How Can We Act with a Little More Wisdom?
Whom do you know that’s wise?What makes you think of
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The R.E.A.L. Gift for Behavior Analysts
I am a behavior analyst practitioner working with children who live in a world of chaos and distractions. I greet them each day to work and play and saying goodbye when I end my day.
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OBM Specialist Certificate
The OBM specialist certificate is ABA Technology's comprehensive course in the concepts methods practical approaches to utilizing the science of organizational behavior management.
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What is the OBM Specialist Certificate?
Making meaningful changes in an organization requires diligence and thorough analysis. If the goal is to make a difference that truly impacts the organization, it is essential to properly assess the situation, focus on the appropriate areas, and involve the right people.
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The Inception of Social-Validity Reporting in JABA
In the 1978 seminal article Social Validity: The Case for Subjective Measurement or How Applied Behavior Analysis is Finding its Heart, Montrose M. Wolf discusses, among other things, the inception of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) in 1968. He writes that he was tasked with stating the purpose of the journal before it could go to press.
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Training & Development: OBM Series
Part 5 of 7OBM Prerequisite Skills: OBM SeriesBehavior-Based Safety
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How Jack Michael Expanded Our Analysis of Classical (Pavlovian) Conditioning
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.
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Professional Development through Animal Research
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.
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Rules, Contingencies, and the Battle of Britain
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.
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As Useful as a Third Ear
When I was a graduate student in clinical psychology, lo those many years ago, I was as
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Getting to the Cause of Things
“Why did Johnny just throw the mother of all temper tantrums?” is a question many of you have asked and been asked, in some form or another. The response to this question, under scrutiny, may have been different. The perpetrator may have been different. The circumstances may have been different.
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What Does it Mean to Say Ours is “A Science of Behavior?"
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?
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Rapid Habit Formation
3 Steps to protect your team during pandemicsLessons from Lean Hospitals and OBMWhen pandemics strike, they spread quickly, as in the current COVID
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Civil Unrest: Putting Us in Touch with Our Humanity
As behavior analysts, we are specifically trained to find functional alternatives to ongoing issues. We are frequently called on when a child or an adult becomes overly aggressive, either towards themselves or others.
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When Punishment is a Reinforcer
The behavior of punishing. When behavior is reinforced it becomes more likely the next time, and the next, often in an ever-escalating spiral.
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