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How Do I Get into Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)?
Wondering how you can get started with your career in OBM? Kelly Therrien, a seasoned consultant, and behavior analyst says to start small and she offers a few suggestions. Read more here!
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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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Operant Behavior and Snowflakes
Sitting here at my desk on a cold, snowy morning watching the snowflakes gently descend to blanket the landscape outside my window (such descriptions reveal why I am a behavior analyst and not a poet), reminds me of the operant (another reminder, too, of why I am not a poet). The operant is one of our most important concepts. Operants are classes of responses that have a similar effect on the environment. That effect can be to operate something that allows their measurement (like a child’s block-stacking or a pigeon’s key peck) or to produce a reinforcer or punisher.
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Welcome to Operant Innovations!
Contact Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA with your new ideas, articles, or books at operantinnovations@abatechnologies.com.
Improving Lives Through the Science of Behavior.
A NEW podcast from ABA Technologies, Inc.
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Precision Teaching for Classroom Success
Humans are constantly in search of the newest, brightest solution for problems in everyday life. We download countless apps for tracking calories, learning languages, working out, budgeting—you name it. In education, we do the same. But the newest, brightest thing in teaching and learning might not be the solution
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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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A Quick Guide to Self-Management
If you want to consistently achieve personal goals, you must first learn to manage your behavior. The field of Applied Behavior Analysis has developed a set of procedures to help you do this. We call these strategies self-management.
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Less Searching, More Applying: A Practitioner's Guide to Contacting Literature
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Self- & Time-Management Planner Coil
Co-Author of Manage Your Time Like It's All You've Got!, Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA, received her BS and MA in the science of human behavior from Western Michigan University where she first discovered her passion for self- & time-management.
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AC4P with Dr. Scott Geller 016 | Leadership vs. Management Part 1
Are you a leader or are you a manager? These terms are often used interchangeably, but do they actually mean the same thing? Dr. Scott Geller will go into the different behaviors of both leaders and mentors and how you can reflect on your behaviors.
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Abby Greif, MS, BCBA
… degrees from Florida Institute of Technology. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology in 2012, received her Master of Science in applied behavior analysis in December 2014, and became a BCBA a few months later. Abby's primary clinical … has presented at multiple conferences throughout her time as a BCBA. Abby is now pursuing her passion for disseminating the science of behavior analysis through online education and training, and eventually hopes to reach broader audiences and communities by demonstrating the effectiveness of behavioral science with other non-behavior analytic disciplines, particularly in the areas of sustainability and sport performance. …
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.
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Operant Innovations 023 | OBM Series: Leadership & Culture | Shauna V. Costello
Let's continue our exploration of the answer to this question - "What can I do with a degree in behavior analysis other than clinical work?". In a recent blog and infographic series, produced by Vince Bello & ABA Technologies, an exploration of the subfields and job titles of OBM were explored.
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University Series 019 | West Virginia University
Join Operant Innovations as we talk with Dr. Claire St. Peter about the plethora of undergraduate and graduate opportunities at West Virginia University.
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University Series 008 | University of Colorado Denver
Join Operant Innovations as they talk with Dr. Pat Romani about the BCBA and BCaBA programs and the University of Colorado Denver.
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