BEHP 1022: "Train the Practitioner" Provider Workshop*

*Participate in two Live Online Meetings (see registration site for dates)
*Participants will need to purchase the "Secrets of Modern Parenting" DVD series, offered at a discounted rate of $99.00 +S/H (Instructions for ordering this DVD will be included in the registration confirmation.)

Rating: This course is recommended for any parents or practitioners. No prerequisite knowledge of behavior analysis is required.

Keywords: Behavior change procedures, relationships, compliance, arguing, lying, tantrums, disrespect

Learn how to get parents to execute the behavior change procedures you want to see! See here for dates and online meeting times.

Topics covered include:

• Building Relationships: The Cornerstone of The Secrets of Modern Parenting
•  Reduce children's behaviors to gain attention inappropriately.
• Gaining Compliance in your home: turn "No" into "Yes"
• Four major reasons children are not compliant
• End Arguing: Put an End to Arguing in your homeHow to eliminate the triggers for arguing
• Eliminate Lying: Promote truthfulness
• Strategies to reduce/eliminate lying
• Extinguish Tantrums: Put an end to it altogether
• Appropriate parent/educator response to tantrums
• End Backtalk and Disrespect
• Increasing the behaviors you want to see

Presented by: Karin Torsiello, MS, BCBA; Paula Leonardo, MS, BCBA; Angelique Walsh, MA, BCBA
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10 Type II BACB® CEs

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BEHP 1039: Professionalism*

Keywords: Behavioral consultant, consultation, professionalism, behavior analyst

Being a behavioral consultant is not an easy job. There are many skills behavioral consultants must demonstrate in order for us to establish ourselves as conditioned reinforcers for our consumers and to obtain buy-in for our procedures. This presentation will take the consultative process from start to finish.

Topics covered include:

• initial contact, interviewing skills during an assessment, active listening skills, giving and receiving feedback, setting expectations, and professional behavior
• interpersonal "don'ts" behavioral consultants should try to avoid
• everyday scenarios

*Need Ethics Credits? This course meets the BACB's certification requirements for Ethics and Professionalism.

Presented by: Stacie Neff, M.S., BCBA
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Rating: This basic course of critical consulting skills is recommended for professionals with at least background knowledge of the principles of behavior analysis.

3 Type II BACB® CEs

$39.00 USD

BEHP 1051: Teaching Children with Autism: Establishing Instructional Control

Keywords: Autism, natural environment teaching, instructional control, motivation, mand training

This course details the establishment of instructional control in the natural environment.

Topics covered include:

• The differences between natural environment teaching and intensive teaching.
• Specific procedures for contriving and sustaining motivation and controlling reinforcers
• Practical guidelines to assist in increasing appropriate mands
• Data collection and graphing

Presented by: Holly Kibbe - MS, BCBA; Cherish Twigg - MS, BCBA
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Rating: This course is recommended for parents and professionals who teach children with autism. No prerequisites are required, however background knowledge of ABA is recommended.

2.5 Type II BACB® CEs

$33.00 USD

BEHP 1052: Teaching Early Mands to Children with Autism: Natural Environment Teaching

Keywords: Autism, mands, verbal behavior, natural environment teaching, sign language

This course gives participants detailed information on how and what early manding objectives to teach to children with autism.

Topics covered include:

• The differences between natural environment teaching and intensive teaching
• Specific procedures for teaching the first vocal and sign mands to early learners
• Practical guidelines to increase appropriate mands
• Data collection and graphing

Presented by: Holly Kibbe - MS, BCBA; Cherish Twigg - MS, BCBA
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Rating: This course is recommended for parents and professionals who teach children with autism. No prerequisites are required, however background knowledge of ABA is recommended.

3 Type II BACB® CEs

$39.00 USD

BEHP 1066: A Better Way to Teach: Behavioral Skills Training and its Many Applications

Keywords: Behavioral Skills Training, Social Skills Training, Personal Care Skills, Instruction, Modeling, Rehearsal, Feedback and In situ assessment, Simplified Data Collection, Artificial Agents in BST

Topics discussed include:

• An overview of Behavioral Skills Training, its history, characteristics and components.
• Utilizing BST for staff training, teaching social skills, fire safety and self care for individuals with hemophilia.

Presented by: Andrew Houvouras, M.S., BCBA
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Rating: Participants should be familiar with the basic concepts and principles of behavior analysis, including interpreting graphic displays and basic terminology. Participants should also have some background knowledge in behavioral assessments, intervention, data collection, and research design.

1 Type II BACB® CEs

$13.00 USD

BEHP 1054: ABA and Psychiatric Services

Keywords:  Psychiatric Services, Psychotropic Medication, Pharmacology, Placebo effect, overmedication, Drug treatments, Ethics, Applied Behavior Analysis Clinical Services

Topics discussed include:

• Research history of psychiatric interventions
• ABA in the psychiatric context, barriers and ways to overcome them
• Psychotropic drug studies and the use of global scales vs. behavioral scales

Presented by:  Tom Freeman, M.S., BCBA
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Rating:  This course is recommended for anyone with an interest in psychopharmacology and behavior analysis in the psychiatric setting. It is recommended that participants have some experience with the basic concepts of behavior analysis, as well as some exposure to research methodology.

3.5 Type II BACB® CEs

$46.00 USD

BEHP 1069: Basics of Learning Efficiencies: What it is, How to Calculate it and Why You Should Care

Keywords: learning efficiencies, performance goals, assessment tool, performance improvement

This presentation is intended to be an introduction to a simple yet very useful assessment tool. The presentation will cover what learning efficiencies entail, how to interpret learning efficiency data, and how to calculate learning efficiency data. It will include the opportunity to practice plotting a learning efficiency of the material covered in the presentation. There will be discussion on setting performance goals and learning efficiency goals as well as a variety of examples and uses of learning efficiencies.

 Topics discussed include:

• Overview of learning efficiency
• Utilizing the benefits of tracking learning efficiency
• Distinguishing between performance goals and learning efficiency goals
• Plotting and tracking learning efficiency data graphically

Presented by: Mai-Linh Pham, M.S., BCBA
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Rating: This course is intended for individuals with basic background knowledge in data collection and interpreting graphic displays.

1 Type II BACB CEs

$13.00 USD