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Pragmatism and Playing Well with Others
Many applied behavior analysts find themselves in a different world from that in which they were trained. Most are trained by other behavior analysts in programs or even departments where the principal worldview is that of behavior analysis. Fast forward a couple of years (or more) and many of those same people find themselves in multidisciplinary settings, working with people who not only have different specialty areas—for example, medicine, rehabilitation therapy, social work—but, more importantly, a totally different way of looking at problems, both conceptually and methodologically
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A Self-ish Behavior Analysis?
I just googled the word “self”: 3,540,000,000 hits, more or less. That’s three-point five billion, just to be clear. Wow. What a word. What a construct. Whoever came up with the idea of self? (In his recent book, Flesh in the Age of Reason, which I highly recommend, Roy Porter suggested it might have been the 16th-century French philosopher Déscartes.)
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Kudos for One of the Home Team
… body of work is varied, but with a general theme relating to OBM applications. Her books include three volumes on workplace ethics, Winning the Integrity Revolution (1993), Ethics at Work (2005) and A Good Day's Work: Sustaining Ethical Behavior and Business Success (2006), co-written with WVU … people and organizations, including our own. References Clark, Ralph W., and Lattal, Alice Darnell, Workplace Ethics: Winning the Integrity Revolution (1993), Littlefield Adams Quality Paperbacks. …
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Treating Dangerous Behavior
Dangerous behavior simply can’t be ignored. The person engaging in it is going to either hurt herself or someone else if it continues. Saying that is easy, knowing what to do about it is a rabbit hole. At what point does the behavior become more than “disruptive” and cross the “dangerous” threshold?
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Rules Rule, or Do They?
Rules often are derived to guide behavior under certain, often well-specified conditions.
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