emergency room more efficient

Making Hospitals More Efficient with Behavioral Systems Analysis

October 11, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Kelley and Gravina (2018) recently published a study in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management in which a successful process redesign produced significantly lower door-to-order and door-to-discharge times in the […]

ABA Practice

6 Guidelines for incorporating ACT into traditional ABA practice.

August 31, 2020 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, originated in the 1980s as an approach to well being that targets language and cognition from a functional […]

Society

Asceticism and Applied Behavior Analysis

March 20, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC According to Google, asceticism refers to “severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.” Nearly every religion has ascetic sects, including […]

Society

Would you pay me to be healthy?

July 7, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Aaron Carroll of the New York Times recently wrote an article describing a growing body of research supporting the idea of paying people to be healthy. He […]

Ivory Tower

Positive vs. Negative Reinforcement is Useless!

October 7, 2015 8

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The distinction between positive and negative reinforcement is useless! That was the conclusion published by Baron and Galizio in The Behavior Analyst. Though Jack Michael was the first […]

Lifestyle

Autistic Teen Loses Weight with Kindness

November 17, 2020 0

Dr. Todd Ward bSci21.org According to Today, kindness in the mail helped an autistic teenager lose over 75 pounds. Carson Swazey is described as a 19 year old boy with “nonverbal autism” who enjoyed going […]

Society

Impact Investing: Aligning Reinforcement Contingencies to Save the Planet

April 4, 2019 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC If there is one thing that affects behavior more than anything else in the world, it is money. And money-related topics are becoming increasingly frequent here at bSci21, […]