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This podcast episode describes the importance of actively evaluating the effects of our supervisory practices. We discuss several different sources of data and provide specific strategies for how to collect and analyze them. We also cover what to do once you have the data.

The Heart of ABA: The Evolution of Social-Validity Reporting in JABA Part 2 of 3 In 1991, Schwartz and Baer publish a paper discussing

Employee feedback is critical for personal and business success. Research on feedback shows that intentional and consistent feedback greatly improves staff expertise, productivity, and outcomes. But, knowing that feedback is important and delivering it effectively are two different things.

Abstract This podcast episode describes the importance of actively evaluating the effects of our supervisory practices. We discuss several different sources of data and provide specific strategies for how to collect and analyze them. We also cover what to do once you have the data.

In the same way that clinicians continually evaluate the outcomes of clinical services, supervisors must engage in active, ongoing evaluation of the effects of their supervisory practices to determine what is going well and what needs to be improved.

The world is comprised of people of varied life experiences, values, and ways of acting in the world. The people we supervise and the people we serve will benefit from our responsiveness to variations and our tenderness in approaching relationships.

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

Shame is a complex experience with powerful and often deeply uncomfortable emotional effects. It is a relational event, arising from a person’s concern about public judgment or disapproval of behaviors that violate that person’s, or his/her culture’s, value system. This concern of public scrutiny can, and often does, lead to socially beneficial outcomes.

When carrying out an OBM project, it’s important to make sure you are focusing on the right variables. The Why/How tool is used to direct users to the root causes for systems-level concerns while ensuring foundational components are properly aligned.

“If supervision is being conducted sufficiently, then supervisees should be performing the skills necessary to achieve client outcomes.” Tom Freeman, MS, BCBA, LBA-NY, LBA-MA Important:  

The Great Resignation has presented unprecedented change and challenges in nearly every sector of the workforce. It may seem daunting, but during this period of disruption, leaders have a unique opportunity to invest in their existing employees, capitalize on their company’s cultural strengths, and foster growth.

The 21st Century Supervision Course Series is based on the BACB’s Supervisor Training Curriculum Outline 2.0, released in December 2018. Per the BACB, this new curriculum is “revised, enhanced, and reorganized to emphasize content relevant to the ongoing supervision of RBTs and BCaBAs, and the supervision of trainees.” All incoming supervisors are required to complete an updated training course beginning November 2019. 

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.

Today we are joined by Dr. Jessica Glass-Kendorski, PHD, NCSP, BCBA-D and Dr. Rich Allen, PSYD, NCSP, BCBA-D from PCOM. If you are looking for a program that melds school psychology and the principles of behavior, you have found your program! The amount of individualization that you will find within this program is immense. With faculty that strive to bring the science of behavior to other fields and build a community of professionals, potential students have the opportunity to learn, research, and network!

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