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With states in the US striking down trans-affirming care left and right, we were so happy to welcome back returning guest, Worner Leland, to discuss what behavior analysts can do in both their practice and more globally to support TGNC clients and their rights. We review a self-assessment tool for reflecting on ones current practice and targets for change as well as discuss the move towards research into supporting behavior change to create more affirming communities. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Additional resources related to trans-affirming care and its need: Call To Action Resources: Behavior Analysts Organizing Around Anti-Trans Legislation 2023 Letter to ABAI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board to Help Our Trans Students Succeed 2023 Anti-Trans Bill Tracker - Advocate in Your State! Educational Resources: Anti-Trans Legislation Data Accepting Adults Reduce Suicide Attempts Among LGBTQ Youth Suicide Risk Reduces 73% in Transgender, Nonbinary Youths with Gender-Affirming Care Behavior Speak: State Level Anti Trans Legislation is Threatening the Lives of Trans Behavior Analysts APA president condemns Texas governor’s directive to report parents of transgender minors   Articles discussed this episode: Leland, W. & Stockwell, A. (2019). A self-assessment tool for cultivating affirming practices with transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) clients, supervisees, students, and colleagues. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 816-825. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00375-0 Alberry, C. (2022). Innovations supporting quality transgender care [Doctorate of Nursing Practice, Oklahoma City University].   Petronelli, A. & Ferguson, R. (2022). Into inclusion: Increasing trans-inclusive practices with behavior analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 845-856. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00669-2 If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

28 Jun 20231h 17min

Rapport building is one of those terms that we think we know it when we see it and agree should be a part of our client-therapist interactions. But when you think about it for a minute, do we really know how to “rapport”? This week we review some research looking to put a little more specificity into building and measuring effective creation of rapport. Because just being nice will only get you so far. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Shillingsburg, M.A., Hansen, B., & Wright, M. (2019). Rapport building and instructional fading prior to discrete trial instruction: Moving from child-led play to intensive teaching. Behavior Modification, 43, 288-306. doi: 10.1177/0145445517751436 Cariveau, T., Shillingsburg, M.A., Alamoudi, A., Thompson, T., Bartlett, B., Gillespie, S., & Scahill, L. (2020). A structured intervention to increase response allocation to instructional settings for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Behavioral Education, 29, 699-716. doi: 10.1007/s10864-019-09340-x If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

21 Jun 20231h 7min

LIVE with BABAT (and at Regis College)! It’s ABA Inside Track! Yes, we actually went somewhere thanks to BABAT and had the opportunity to share our old person tips for ABA students or young professionals on how to move into the role of clinician. We look at this shift in perspective based on your three most important relationships: Your mentor, your peers, and your supervisees. School’s out, BCBAs! Interested in the full video of our talk plus the exciting game show Brad Pitt or Lasers? Join on Patreon for that and a free CE. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Briggs, A.M. & Mitteer, D.R. (2022). Updated strategis for making regular contact with the scholarly literatures. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 541-552. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00590-8 Busch, L., Chartier, K., Zonneveld, K., Saini, V., Leathen, N., & Asaro, M. (2020). The more we get together: Communities of practice for behaviour analysts. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 52, 277-284. doi: 10.1037/cbs0000174 Brown, K. R., Randall, K. R., Smith, S. W., & Rios, D. (2023). Supervision for early career BCBAs. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00786-0 Conners, B., Johnson, A., Duarte, J., Murriky, R., & Marks, K. (2019). Future Directions of Training and Fieldwork in Diversity Issues in Applied Behavior Analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 767–776. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00349-2 Fraidlin, A., McElroy, A., Moses, K.A., Jenssen, K., & Van Stratton, J. E. (2022). Designing a successful supervision journey : Recommendations and resources for new BCBA supervisors. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 16, 374-387. doi: 10.1007/s40617-022-00728-2 Hartley, B. K., Courtney, W. T., Rosswurm, M., & LaMarca, V. J. (2016). The apprentice: An innovative approach to meet the behavior analysis certification board’s supervision standards. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9, 329-338. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0136-x LeBlanc, L. A., Taylor, B. A., & Marchese, N. V. (2019). The Training Experiences of Behavior Analysts: Compassionate Care and Therapeutic Relationships with Caregivers. Behavior analysis in practice, 13(2), 387–393. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00368-z Sellers, T. P., LeBlanc, L. A., & Valentino, A. L. (2016). Recommendations for Detecting and Addressing Barriers to Successful Supervision. Behavior analysis in practice, 9(4), 309–319. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0142-z   If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

14 Jun 20231h 12min

Summer is coming up fast, and we've only got a few minutes to tell you about all our upcoming episodes before Jackie's new puppy has to get to training class. First up, our live episode at Regis College for BABAT hits the airwaves (did you see our video on Patreon?) on the transition from student to practitioner. Then we examine some of the variables behind building a good rapport. Finally, we check-in with returning guest, Worner Leland, about how behavior analysts can improve their trans-affirming care practices. And don't forget to vote on our Summer Book Club bracket starting June 4th. Articles for June 2023 (LIVE) Moving From ABA Student to ABA Professional Briggs, A.M. & Mitteer, D.R. (2022). Updated strategies for making regular contact with the scholarly literatures. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 541-552. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00590-8 Busch, L., Chartier, K., Zonneveld, K., Saini, V., Leathen, N., & Asaro, M. (2020). The more we get together: Communities of practice for behaviour analysts. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 52, 277-284. doi: 10.1037/cbs0000174 Brown, K. R., Randall, K. R., Smith, S. W., & Rios, D. (2023). Supervision for early career BCBAs. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Online first publication.  Conners, B., Johnson, A., Duarte, J., Murriky, R., & Marks, K. (2019). Future Directions of Training and Fieldwork in Diversity Issues in Applied Behavior Analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(4), 767–776. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00349-2 Fraidlin, A., McElroy, A., Moses, K.A., Jenssen, K., & Van Stratton, J. E. (2023). Designing a successful supervision journey : Recommendations and resources for new BCBA supervisors. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 16, 374-387. doi: 10.1007/s40617-022-00728-2 Hartley, B. K., Courtney, W. T., Rosswurm, M., & LaMarca, V. J. (2016). The apprentice: An innovative approach to meet the behavior analysis certification board’s supervision standards. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9, 329-338. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0136-x LeBlanc, L. A., Taylor, B. A., & Marchese, N. V. (2019). The Training Experiences of Behavior Analysts: Compassionate Care and Therapeutic Relationships with Caregivers. Behavior Analysis in Aractice, 13(2), 387–393. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00368-z Sellers, T. P., LeBlanc, L. A., & Valentino, A. L. (2016). Recommendations for Detecting and Addressing Barriers to Successful Supervision. Behavior analysis in practice, 9(4), 309–319. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0142-z   Rapport Building Shillingsburg, M.A., Hansen, B., & Wright, M. (2019). Rapport building and instructional fading prior to discrete trial instruction: Moving from child-led play to intensive teaching. Behavior Modification, 43, 288-306. doi: 10.1177/0145445517751436 Cariveau, T., Shillingsburg, M.A., Alamoudi, A., Thompson, T., Bartlett, B., Gillespie, S., & Scahill, L. (2020). A structured intervention to increase response allocation to instructional settings for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Behavioral Education, 29, 699-716. doi: 10.1007/s10864-019-09340-x   Trans-Affirming Care w/ Worner Leland Leland, W. & Stockwell, A. (2019). A self-assessment tool for cultivating affirming practices with transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) clients, supervisees, students, and colleagues. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 816-825. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00375-0 Alberry, C. (2022). Innovations supporting quality transgender care [Doctorate of Nursing Practice, Oklahoma City University].   Petronelli, A. & Ferguson, R. (2022). Into inclusion: Increasing trans-inclusive practices with behavior analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 845-856. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00669-2

7 Jun 202315min

We’ve enjoyed reading so many great publications looking at diversity and equity in behavior analysis. But, at some point, discussion and think pieces need to turn into application. So, this week, we’re excited to have third-time guest, Dr. Sarah Lechago, discuss the ongoing work of her and her students at the BADIE Lab. We talk gender-bias in online communication, training behavior analysts to work effectively with interpreters, and the most understandable JEAB article we’ve ever read. Want even more after listening? Check out the BADIE Lab resources list in English and in Spanish (courtesy of Dr. Lechago). This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Oda, F.S., Lechago, S.A., da Silva, B.E., & Hunt, J.C. (2022). An experimental analysis of gender-biased verbal behavior and self-editing using an online chat analog. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 118, 24-45. doi: 10.1002/jeab.763 Bosch-Greer, D.J., Lechago, S.A., & McCarville, M.J. (in prep). Training behavior analysis graduate students to work with an interpreter. If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

31 Mai 20231h 17min

UNLOCKED from our Patreon page, it’s “The Nurture Effect” Book Club! Interested in more Book Clubs? Want to vote on what we read next? Feeling FOMO at getting this a full year late? Wish your 2 CEs for listening to the episode were FREE??? Join us on Patreon to get all of our episodes a week early, access to these bonus episodes, plus other goodies. Who’s ready to save the world with behavior analysis? While our original goal of reading books about ACT may have only been partially accomplished, what we got instead is Dr. Anthony Biglan’s overview of what 40+ years of prevention science, behavioral science, and policy making say about improving our lives at the family, school, community, and global stages. Tune in to our mega-long discussion to see where we agree, where we disagree, and what’s still left to do.   This episode is worth 2.0 LEARNING CEUS. Content discussed in this episode Biglan, A. (2015). The nurture effect: How the science of human behavior can improve our lives and our world. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance. Want these CEs for FREE? Just subscribe to our Patreon at the $10+ levels and go to the original post for a discount code.

29 Mai 20232h 9min

Seven years of podcasting and we’ve never actually sat down to discuss how to teach manding. This week, we make up for lost time by pulling from a variety of mand training research quandrants to see what’s new to up our mand game. We’ve got mand assessments, manding with speech generating devices, and the ombudsmand (a term Rob has refused to stop using). This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Bourret, J., Vollmer, T.R., & Rapp, J.T. (2004). Evaluation of a vocal mand assessment and vocal mand training procedures. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 129-144. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2004.37-129 Suberman, R. & Cividini-Motta, C. (2020). Teaching caregivers to implement mand training using speech generating devices. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 53, 1097-1110. doi: 10.1002/jaba.630 Ward, S.N., Hanley, G.P., Warner, C.A., & Gage, E.E. (2021). Does teaching an omnibus mand preclude the development of specifying mands? Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54, 248-269. doi: 10.1002/jaba.784 If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

24 Mai 20231h 19min

While BCBAs are all about identifying the functions of behavior, that doesn’t mean that we have a monopoly on the subject. This week, we review how related fields have been addressing problem behaviors that many behavior analysts haven’t even dreamed of: Non-suicidal self-injury and an update to assessing school avoidance problems. Do these assessments get the job done? Or are we missing an opportunity to meaningfully collaborate to support treatment in these areas? This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Knollman, M., Reissner, V., & Hebebrand, J. (2019). Towards a comprehensive assessment of school absenteeism: Development and initial validation of the inventory of school attendance problems. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 399-414. doi: 10.1007/s00787-018-1204-2 Lloyd-Richardson, E.E., Perrine, N., Dierker, L. & Kelley, M.L. (2007). Characteristics and functions of non-suicidal self-injury in a community sample of adolescents. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1183-1192. doi: 10.1017/S003329170700027X Klonsky, E.D. & Glenn, C.R. (2009). Assessing the functions of non-suicidal self-injury: Psychometric properties of the Inventory of Statements About Self-injury (ISAS). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavior Assessment, 31, 215-219. doi: 10.1007/s10862-008-9107-z If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

17 Mai 20231h 14min