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May 16, 2018

ACT and Anxiety: A brief history.

Angela Cathey, MA, LPC & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (“ACT”) is considered ‘third-wave’ behavior therapy. ‘Third-wave’ refers to developmental timeline within psychotherapeutic traditions of the…

April 25, 2018

How MMA champs fight anxiety with ACT and behavior analysis.

Angela Cathey, MA, LPC & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D & bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Succeeding at professional sports is challenging both on physical and psychological levels. Today, we’ll discuss how professional trainers help…

March 26, 2018

Find your reinforcers, and fail.

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi Brett DiNovi & Associates Behavior analysts produce what you could call miraculous results. Sure, BA’s know that there’s nothing magical about it, but miracles don’t necessarily involve the supernatural – they’re…

February 7, 2018

Fighting Fair Behavior: What it looks like and it’s positive effects on marriage

By Justyna Balzar, M.Ed., BCBA Guest Author Recently I came across two different media outlets discussing problem behaviors detrimental to marriage. The first was an article posted on bSci21.org by Dr. Todd Ward titled, “Changing Four Behaviors that Predict Divorce with…

January 12, 2018

An Informal Analysis of Impostor Phenomenon and Psychological Inflexibility: Getting Your ACT Together!

By Nelly A. Dixon, Ed.D, BCBA Kaplan University “Will the real _____ please stand up?” is a famous tagline from the gameshow, To Tell the Truth (Goodson-Todman, 1956) in which each individual in a panel of three participants tries to…

September 7, 2017

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Disciplines

By Brett Blevins, M.Ed, BCBA, LBA Guest Author “Sometimes when two worlds collide, a better one is created.” -Anonymous The Divide Natural Science vs Social Science. Behaviorism vs Mentalism. Behavior Analysis vs Psychotherapy. Can’t we all just get along? After…

September 8, 2015

Control Yourself! Integrity and Being a Human Being

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer In just about every circle I travel, integrity is a big deal. In behavior analysis, we mostly worry about integrity with respect to our treatment programs. In fact, when Baer, Wolf, and Risley…

February 12, 2015

Changing Four Behaviors that Predict Divorce with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to BusinessInsider.com, researchers at the University of Washington’s Gottman Institute have identified four behaviors most likely to predict divorce with 93% accuracy in longitudinal studies of married couples. The behaviors…