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ISIS and Applied Behavior Analysis

February 25, 2015 bsci21 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org ISIS is the best financed group ever. That is the opinion of Matthew Levitt, director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington […]

ABA Practice

Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis

February 21, 2015 3

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21 Founding Editor Training behavior analysts is tedious. The intricacies of supervised fieldwork alone can be a harrowing experience for many — meeting with interdisciplinary teams, parents, challenging clients, […]

Business/OBM

Making Hospitals More Efficient with Behavioral Systems Analysis

October 11, 2018 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 […]

Lifestyle

You Don’t Listen!

June 7, 2015 2

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer I’ve been thinking a lot, for a fairly long time, about listening. It’s something that, as behavior analysts, in which I think we’re curiously uninterested. At this point, […]

Business/OBM

5 Ways To Sell Your Ideas, With Help From Steve Jobs, ACT, and RFT.

April 15, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Everyone has to sell their ideas every day. The term “sell” doesn’t necessarily imply money, but it does imply persuasion — convincing people that your way […]

Business/OBM

The Contingencies of Workplace Complacency

September 15, 2017 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Complacency in the workplace is at epidemic proportions. According to Brett DiNovi, in his video titled “Good employees get dumped on,” only 45% are satisfied […]