This blog post is intended to help students that plan on taking their Board Certification in Behavior Analysis (“Pre-CBAs”) to understand the terms and topics of behavior analysis. Some of you are taking live classes and some are taking courses online. Either way, it would be beneficial to have an opinion other than your textbook… Continue reading Topic of the Week: Reinforcement & Reinforcers
Author: lili@thebehaviorweb.com
How Do You Know If Your Behavior Plan Is a Good Plan?
On another blog post I discussed Why some behavior plans don’t work, today, I want to ask you, how do you know a behavior plan or a behavior program is a good one? My BCBA friends will certainly say “the data will tell you”. True, but is there any way that even before implementing a… Continue reading How Do You Know If Your Behavior Plan Is a Good Plan?
50 Shades of Behavior Therapy
This week I came across a very interesting Ted Talk where the speaker, Dr. Daniel Amen, described the importance of brain imaging in psychiatric diagnostics. I was quite enjoying myself until he said that using behavior therapy for a patient with violent behavior “would be cruel”. I have worked with behavior therapy for people with… Continue reading 50 Shades of Behavior Therapy
Fear of the Unknown
Working as a behavior analyst in an acute psychiatric hospital, has posed many challenges, to say least. One afternoon, as I sat with my supervisor discussing how difficult it was to get the staff to follow the recommendations of a behavior plan, she asked me why I thought they didn’t follow my recommendations. “Fear”, I… Continue reading Fear of the Unknown
Why Some Behavioral Interventions Don’t Seem To Work?
There are many reasons why some behavioral programs don’t work: poor design, inadequate reinforcers, irrelevant back up reinforcers, goals are too high, etc. From all the possible reasons for the failure of a behavior program, the one I have encountered most frequently is lack of contingency. Behavior is maintained by its consequences. In order to… Continue reading Why Some Behavioral Interventions Don’t Seem To Work?