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Knowing what’s under your control as a BCBA

December 20, 2018 bsci21 1

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Healthcare professionals in most specialties go into their field to create a better world. They often care deeply for their […]

The High Cost of Stress in the ABA Workplace

April 25, 2016 bsci21 30

By Dan Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer As a planet full of workers, we are getting increasingly stressed out. According to a recent article in the Huffington Post levels of stress in the workplace are […]

Society

Gender X and Deictic Relations

January 2, 2019 5

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC New York City recently joined California, Oregon, and Washington state with a recent change in law that allows for a third gender option – simply called “X”. According […]

Business/OBM

The Paradox of Power and the Nature of Human Bias: A behavior analyst’s notes on Uber, Tesla, Wells Fargo, and multi-systems change processes.

March 10, 2017 0

By Angela Cathey, M.A. bSci21 Contributing Writer As a behavior analyst my attention is often drawn to cycles of behavior. Where there is a pattern, there can be prediction and change. In recent news, I […]

Society

Drunk Shopping – Impulse Control in the Internet Age

April 3, 2019 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC People are impulsive, and impulse control is a popular research topic among behavior analysts. In a previous article, we discussed a special issue of the Journal of […]

Society

Halloween in the 1900s: How Applied Behavior Analysis shaped the future of Trick-or-Treating

October 29, 2015 3

By Emaley McCulloch, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer On a typical October 31st, dozens of children may ring your door bell, yell “trick-or-treat” and then hold out their bag for candy. Have you ever thought […]

Society

The Use of High-Probability Request Sequences in Hostage Negotiation

December 6, 2015 1

By Emily Mandel bSci21 Contributing Writer A pilot study conducted by James Hughes in 2009 investigated the use of behavior analytic methodology in hostage negotiation. A hostage negotiation, as defined by The Negotiation Experts, is […]

ABA Practice

An ABA Practitioner’s Guide to Evidence-Based Staff Training

November 4, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Parsons, Rollyson, and Reid provided a six-step guide to providing evidence-based staff trainings for practitioners of Applied Behavior Analysis, published in Behavior Analysis in Practice. The authors […]