ABA Inside Track

Rob's running the show solo this month as we head into the dog days of summer. Enjoy our two regular episodes including a history of behavior analysis with Dr. Mirari Elcoro and our listener-selected episode on client self-determination in transition planning. Then, while we're enjoying a little time off, we'll be unlocking last year's book club discussing "Street Data" and releasing our talk on Q...

Enjoy a short preview of our latest full-length Book Club episode.  Want to hear the whole thing and get 2 CEs for free? Subscribe to our Patreon today at the premium $10+ levels for that plus other bonuses! Are you mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore enough to move out to the country to a semi-anarcho-communist society where the prinicples of human behavior have created a utopia? Well, then...

DRA treatments are probably one of our all-time favorites when it comes to supporting clients with challenging behavior. If it weren't for that darn extinction piece, it'd probably be an all-time favorite for everyone. So, what if we kept the DRA and ditched the extinction component? This week we find out. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Trump, C.E....

While choosing smaller-sooner rather than larger-later may be a common preference, is this a factor of our learning history, our lifetime development, or our genetic expression? This week, Dr. Amy Odum stops by to review how the study of delay discounting can support better understanding of socially-relevant problems like gambling and addiction in humans. But first: We're talking about rats in ope...

There's a big difference between fear of broccoli and refusal of vegetables when observing young children's general food pickiness. And while many treatments are available for severe food refusal, what's a parent to do for less severe but challenging food selectivity? This week Dr. Holly Gover joins us to talk about treatments for increasing food acceptability with children without the use of exti...

Summer just keeps heating up and we've got plenty of fireworks bursting out of your ol' podcatcher. We're celebrating a month full of Wednesdays with a month full of episodes featuring special guests like Dr. Holly Gover and Dr. Amy Odum to dig deep into the world of feeding selectivity treatment and delay discounting. Then we gather round the microphones to look at whether DRA without extinction...

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 resear...

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...

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...

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 ch...

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 wo...

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 ana...

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...

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 opport...

Contingent reinforcement is great and all. But what if I could have the reinforcement delivered at the same time as my target behavior? Despite having been described for some time, very little has been done to explore the potential use of synchronous reinforcement. Fortunately, Dr. Claudia Dozier joins us this week to get this new line of research up to speed by discussing two of her recent public...

We're coming around the bend and heading into summer, but, before that, we've got too many episodes to count without using all of your fingers. Special guests Dr. Claudia Dozier and Dr. Sarah Lechago will be joining us to talk about applications of synchronous reinforcement and research on diversity, equity, and inclusion coming out of the BADIE Lab . In between those discussions we look at a vari...

Enjoy a short preview of our latest full-length Book Club episode.  Want to hear the whole thing and get 2 CEs for free? Subscribe to our Patreon today at the premium $10+ levels for that plus other bonuses! You'd think living in such a big-data obsessed world, that behavior analysts would be enjoying some of the most fact-filled, objective times of their lives. Unfortunately, more data means more...

does this form of college course actually educate anyone? This week Dr. Kendra Guinness joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of behavioral instruction in teaching college courses. We review some of the classic forms of personalized systems of instruction before looking at how technology is (or perhaps isn't) pushing these tools into the classroom...and why everyone might not be excite...

While we all love a good snack, and we can all agree the we'd do almost anything for a Klondike bar, there's more to life than food. So why do behavior analysts get stuck on using edibles as the be all and end all of reinforcement in behavior acquisition? This week, we take a look at the research to see if edible reinforcers really should be selling like hotcakes or if there's more to reinforcemen...

You know what is behavior analysis....and what is pseudoscience. You know what is Inside Track...and what is outside track. You know what is grab bag...and what is a single topic episode. Now, forget all you know...or think you know. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Gale, C.M., Eikeseth, S., & Eikeseth, F.F. (2023). Effects of enthusastic and non-ent...

So the worst season is upon us, but we're still raring to podcast about behavior analysis. This month in between gardening and umbrella-buying, we're planning a good ol' bevy of discussions on topics such as moving away from edible reinforcement in programming and behavioral instruction with special guest, Dr. Kendra Guinness, plus (for Patreon subscribers ) our whole discussion of "Calling Bullsh...

When providing services, clinicians spend so much time complaining that our clients don't what we tell them fast enough that we often find ourselves tracking "non-compliance" as a beahvior of change. But what if instead of seeing "non-compliance" as a problem behavior, we thought of it as a removal of treatment assent? This week Dr. Haley Steinhauser and Alex Kishbaugh join us to discuss the impor...

As a follow up to Episode 219 , we continue our discussion of the harms of conversion therapy by behavior analysis in the 1970s by covering the remaining research articles published in JABA on the subject. Bringing his ever-detailed additional context is Book Club Guy, Alan Haberman, who helps us look at whether this research deserves its own expressions of concern (or is just inappropriate and gr...

Did you ever have one of those weird funtional analyses? You know, the one where all the problem behavior happens in the control condition or responding remains strangely variable during the escape condition even though the client's teacher swears he tantrums every single time she presents any work? This week we seek answers as to what to do when your FA results look like the world's most volatile...

While behavior analysts love to collect data to assess whether or not a client is reaching a specific target goal, have you ever stoped to wonder what information would need to be collected to determine whether or not specific services are "working"? Well, wonder less because our special guest, Dr. Ivy Chong, shares stories from her time as chair of the ICHOM team developing a standard set to meas...